Eosc 114 extinctions - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

EOSC 114 Impacts and Extinctions Question and answers verified to pass About how long does it take material from the Oort cloud to travel to the inner Solar System? A. 100,000 years B. 24-26 million years C. 1,000 years D. 10 million years E. 1 million years - correct answer E. 1 million years Which of these scenarios could NOT cause a mass extinction? A. Extremely large caldera-forming super-volcano eruption and associated greenhouse or cold house effects B. Earth colliding ...

EOSC 114 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST 2024/2025 UPDATE FULLY SOLVED Mass Extinctions/Impacts Graded Quiz The Deccan Traps likely contributed to climate change at the end of the ______. a)Devonian b)Cretaceous c)Permian d)Triassic e)Jurassic - Answer- Cretaceous Mass Extinctions/Impacts Graded Quiz The organisms most responsible for biological extinctions today are ______. a)humans b)domestic dogs c)fungi d)viruses e)domestic cats - Answer- humans Mass Extinctions/Im...

EOSC 114 - Extinctions Practice Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+ Mass extinction - Answers crisis that affects all forms of life - at least 30% of earth's species (ALL NOT JUST ONE) must be lost - must be across a broad range of ecologies, not restricted to any one niche and not just one species - it must have a short/sudden duration (1 mil years max) biosphere - Answers thin layer of life on the surface of the planet that interacts with the hydrosphere (oceans/lakes/river...