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Science in the News
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Weekly news articles will be linked here which need to be responded to in your own words and turned in on [|turnitin.com]. No late work is accepted as you will have a week week time frame to complete these responses.

Weekly Articles will be posted and you will have one week to read and respond to them - not summarize them. There will also be some questions to help stimulate your response.

11/2 - Article: [|Caffeine] Response Prompts Due 11/9 - no late work accepted - it's a computer!!

11/9 Article: due 11/16 - the computer does not accept late work! As we are coming to our topic on Earth history and fossils, the following link is an interesting article on Fossilized Forests: [|Fossilized Forests] - Post response on [|turnitin.com] Response Prompts for this week: 11/16 Article- due 11/23 - the computer does not accept late work! Please post on turnitin.com [|Tar Pits - South America] Possible Response Prompts:  Read the following link: [|Big Discoveries about Little People] - what can fossils tell us? Possible Response Prompts0 if you need them. (Don't just answer them but write it into a response): Or these:
 * In what ways might global warming affect daily life in the area where you live? See [|42explore.com/globewrm.htm] (eduScapes).
 * How is something being petrified different from being frozen in ice? Which process leads to better preservation? See [|geology.about.com/od/fossilstimeevolution/a/aa_oldDNA.htm] (About).
 * Could polar bears, white hares, or mosquitoes have lived in the Arctic when it was warmer? Why or why not?
 * Why is the Arctic especially important when scientists study global warming and its possible effects? See [|www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/qthinice.asp] (Natural Resources Defense Council).
 * What is petrified wood? Where in the United States can you find petrified wood? See [|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrified_wood] (Wikipedia).
 * 1) Why do scientists care about what animals roamed Earth thousands or even millions of years ago?
 * 2) Explain why you would like to observe scientists extracting fossils from one of these tar pits — or why you wouldn’t. Pick an answer that doesn’t involve: “Because it’s yucky!”
 * 3) What might the fossils suggest about evolution and where particular families of species come from?
 * __11/30 - Due THURSDAY 12/4 - BEFORE HOLIDAY!!__**
 * 1) Which animals are most closely related to humans?
 * 2) What can scientists learn from fossils?
 * 1) Why might the hobbits have gone extinct?
 * 2) How is the discovery of a new human species different than discovering another animal species?
 * 3) Why would scientists consider the hobbit to be the most important discovery in anthropology in 50 years?
 * 4) Humans vary in appearance, but we are all considered the same species. What makes hobbits a different species? In general, what distinguishes closely related species from one another?
 * 5) Why do you think scientists found the hobbit bones in a limestone cave? Where else might you look for bones of ancient humans?