English National Curriculum - Science Science

3. Explore evolution and extinction

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Understand the concept of evolution and how it occurs

Identify the different types of evidence for evolution

Explain the process of extinction and its causes

Analyse the impact of extinction on ecosystems

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population

all the inhabitants of a particular place

formation

the action of forming or process of being formed

organism

an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form

extinct

the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds, usually a species

species

a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding

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