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Explorers of the environment construct a dichotomous key for a variety of organisms and design a key to classify Galapagos animals based on descriptions and images. The lesson includes a link to an animal gallery and the worksheet for making observations about the animals.

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scientific classification, taxonomy, the galapagos islands

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classification, galapagos, science
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5th - 8th
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Science
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