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Survival Skills-Response of Organisms to Climate Change

Classroom/Laboratory Activity

A classroom/laboratory activity to analyze the distribution of beetle, mammal, and plant species (for datasets from North America) in the past (based on fossil records), determine whether the same species exist today, and compare the past and present geographic ranges and ecosystems of these species.

Students will create maps, analyze data, and interpret their findings to learn how organisms have survived climate change since this last glacial maximum (LGM). Students will determine ecoregion changes over the past 20,000 years and the resulting geographic range shifts for some species.

Use this tool to help your students find answers to:

  1. How does climate change affect ecoregions?
  2. Describe the geographic range shift of the beetle species that lived in eastern Iowa during the last glacial maximum (based on the data provided in the activity).
About Tool
Tool NameBeetles, Mammals, and Plants: Is Climate Driving Range Shifts Since the Last Glacial Maximum
DisciplineBiological Sciences
Topic(s) in DisciplineBiodiversity, Animal Diversity, Evolution, Species and Speciation, Ecology, Populations, Zoogeography
Climate TopicClimate and the Biosphere
Type of toolClassroom/Laboratory Activity
Grade LevelUndergraduate
LocationNorth America, USA
LanguageEnglish
Translation     –
Developed byChristian George (High Point University), Jessie Rock (North Dakota State University), Allan Ashworth, North Dakota State University)
Hosted atScience Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Link
AccessOnline
Computer SkillsIntermediate

Mapped Sustainable Development Goal(s), apart from 4 and 13

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TROP ICSU is a project of the International Union of Biological Sciences and Centre for Sustainability, Environment and Climate Change, FLAME University.

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