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McREL Benchmarks Below (Click here to compare with state standards.)
| Click here for Science Friday Kids' Connection Resource Pages linked to this benchmark. | McREL Benchmark 7. Knows how successive layers of sedimentary rock and the fossils contained within them can be used to confirm the age, history, and changing life forms of the Earth, and how this evidence is affected by the folding, breaking, and uplifting of layers (benchmark details) |
| Click here for Science Friday Kids' Connection Resource Pages linked to this benchmark. | McREL Benchmark 1. Knows basic ideas related to biological evolution (e.g., diversity of species is developed through gradual processes over many generations; biological adaptations, such as changes in structure, behavior, or physiology, allow some species to enhance their reproductive success and survival in a particular environment) (benchmark details) |
| Click here for Science Friday Kids' Connection Resource Pages linked to this benchmark. | McREL Benchmark 2. Knows that the fossil record, through geologic evidence, documents the appearance, diversification, and extinction of many life forms (benchmark details) |
| Click here for Science Friday Kids' Connection Resource Pages linked to this benchmark. | McREL Benchmark 3. Understands the concept of extinction and its importance in biological evolution (e.g., when the environment changes, the adaptive characteristics of some species are insufficient to allow their survival; extinction is common; most of the species that have lived on the Earth no longer exist) (benchmark details) |
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