Pangea - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

/Giardia/ ((italicized)) - inflammation in digestive track; contaminated water HINT: be on your GUARD (giardia) when drinking water in a different country 3 kinds of Protista - fungus-like, animal-like, plant-like **because Protista are POLYphyletic, fungus-like is closer to fungi than animal-lke About the Eras - Precambrian- single celled bacteria (before Paleozoic) Paleozoic- paleo means old; age of invertebrates then vertebrates evolved Mesozoic- meso means middle; dinosaurs (reptiles) ...

EASC 103 Test 2 Questions and answers, VERIFIED/ Where and when are the oldest dinosaur fossils from? Argentina, 230 Ma (Late Triassic) Pangea A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed all through the Triassic and began rifting at the start of the Jurassic. Brainpower Read More Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:01 / 0:15 Full screen Two Landmasses of Pangea The Northern Landmass Laurasia (North America, Greenland, Asia...

Precambrian correct answers 4.5 bya-542 mya Hadean (before life), Archeon (ended with photosynthesis), Proterozoic (eukaryotes) origin of life 3.8 bya photosynthesis 2.7 bya eukaryotes 1.5 bya multicellularity 1 bya Land masses spread apart Paleozic correct answers 542 mya- 251 mya Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniforous, Permian vascular plants, land animals 420 mya Mesozoic correct answers 251 mya- 65 mya Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous mammals 200 mya flowering...

AST 1002 IRSC final exam questions & answers 2024/2025 When the moon is new, we have __ tides; when the moon is full, we have __ tides - ANSWERSSpring; Spring The dark regions on the moon are called - ANSWERSMaria Our moon and in fact, most terrestrial surfaces contain these two basic igneous materials - ANSWERSBasalt and Granite How is lunar farside different from lunar nearside - ANSWERSIt has almost no lunar maria Process where dense materials sink to a planet's core while l...

Oceans 100 Exam 1 SDSU Latest Update Graded A+ SCIENCE supports the explanation of the natural world that best explains all available observations (What is the basis of science? NEEDS EVIDENCE) SCIENTIFIC METHOD The process by which scientists take data from natural world and try to answer questions. HYPOTHESIS A tentative, testable statement about the general phenomena observed OR an initial idea of how, or why things happen in nature. SCIENTIFIC THEORY Structure of ideas that...

PRAXIS 5005 EXAM LATEST VERSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT What causes the seasons? - Answer-The tilt of the Earth's axis. The earths orbit is not a perfect circle. There are points in its cycle when its closer to the sun, and it does NOT dictate the weather What are the layers of the earth? (from the inside to the outside) - Answer-inner core, outer core, mantle, crust How did earth form? - Answer-a mass of dust and gas spinning as gravity pulled it together How did the con...

Conservative plate boundary - Answer where two tectonic plates slide past each other convergent plate boundary - Answer plates move towards each other and collide Divergent plate boundary - Answer Plates move away from each other Alfred Wegener 1912 - Answer All continents were once joined in a super continent called Pangea. Continental drift caused Pangea to move apart Holmes 1929 - Answer Convection in the mantle is the force behind continental drift oceanographic vessels 1...

What are the layers of the Earth? Ans: Crust, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core What are three plate boundaries? Explain/Give Example Ans: Divergent - Push Away/Mid-Atlantic Ridge Convergent - Pull Together/Himalayan Mountains Transform - Slide Past/San Andreas Fault Who created the continental drift theory? Ans: Alfred Wegener in 1915 How long ago was Pangea present? Ans: 225 Million Years ago What animal fossil was used to support continental drift? Ans: Mes...

igneous rock formed as result of tectonic process that brings magma to earth's surface what's after volcano! sedimentary rock formed from the compaction of rock fragments what's after erosion! metamorphic rocks extreme pressure causes rocks to change... will next go into magma if heats up! Pangea 200 million years ago.. all continents together hydrosphere the many bodies of water on earth's surface groundwater water stored underground in rock formations called aquifers

Geosphere - Earth sphere that contains all of earths materials Hydrosphere - Earth sphere that contains all of the water on earth Atmosphere - Earth sphere that contains oxygen nitrogen CO2 and all other molecules in the air Biosphere - Earth space that contains all living things on earth Geologic Time scale - Record of geological events Pangea - Supercontinent that provides evidence for continental drift theory Continental drift - Theory that states all continents were once together as ...