Inheritance and Variation · Life Science

Natural Selection and Adaptation

Students analyze how environmental pressures influence the survival and reproduction of specific traits.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does the environment 'choose' which traits are successful?
  2. 2What causes a species to change over thousands of years?
  3. 3How do we know that modern animals are related to extinct ancestors?

Common Core State Standards

MS-LS4-4MS-LS4-6
Grade: 7th Grade
Subject: Science
Unit: Inheritance and Variation
Period: Life Science

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