Dinosaurs - Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

What is extinction? correct answer: The loss or death of a species What is mass extinction? correct answer: A decline in biodiversity greater than the background extinction rate What is background extinction? correct answer: Background extinction occurs when certain populations are reduced to zero because of normal environment change, emerging disease, predation pressure, or competition with another species How are mass extinctions detected and how many have been detected? correct an...

Natural Event Geological or atmospheric processes involving the release of energy and has nothing to do with people. Geological is due to the hot interior of the Earth and can be expressed as volcanoes. Atmospheric type of energy is the product of solar energy which can be expressed as tornadoes. Characteristics of a Natural Disaster (5) geological, atmospheric, magnitude, frequency, duration, areal extent Recurrence interval time between same sized events (150 years) frequency 1/recurrenc...

Megalosaurus Found fragments in England. 1st one to be scientifically discovered. Bipedal predaceous (theropod) Iguanodon first found fragments in Sussex England. Found the 1st complete skeleton in coal mines in Belgium later on Hylaeosaurus Armored reptile/Ankylosaurus. Found fragments in England "Dinosauria" - who came up with it, what it means, and concept of this clade/year Who: Richard Owen Meaning: "Deinos" - terrible, "sauros" - lizard/reptile Clade: bony sockets, large sa...

Abiotic - Non-living acid deposition (acid rain) - Release of sulfate and nitrate during theburning of coal contributes to ___________ Age of Angiosperms - Cenozoic Era 125 million years ago Age of Gymnosperms - Became the dominant plants. The Mesozoic is sometimes called the Age of Cycads. But their success was short-lived. . 390 million years ago Age of Mammals - Cenozoic Era- dinosaurs were gone. They began to flourish 65 million years ago Age of Reptiles - Mesozoic Era- dinosaurs r...

In what time period, did the Dinosaurs originate? a) Silurian b) Permian c) Triassic d) Jurassic e) Cretaceous f) Paleogene c) Triassic At the end of which time period, did the Dinosaurs die out? a) Silurian b) Permian

OrnithischianClade of dinosaurs- Herbivores; horned-face dinosaurs;had pelvic structure similar to birds (i.e triceratops, stegosaurus) SaurischianCarnivores; differentiated from ornithischians by their forward pointing pubis SauropodHerbivores, long- necked, massive in size, 5 toes; first appeared in Triassic period, includes largest animals to ever live on land TheropodA group of Saurischian dinosaurs; mid Triassic- Cretaceous, dominant terrestrial carnivores. found w/ a lizard in i...

/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) ...

Main questions of course - 1. How do humans alter earth 2. how do human alterations affect the biosphere 3. What can be done to alleviate human alterations of the biosphere Greatest ecological impacts of humans(most to least) - 1. Nitrogen fixation 2. Water use 3. Land transformation 4. CO2 concentration rise 5. Ocean acidification 6. Bird extinction 7. Plant invasion Planetary Boundaries - Limits between which global systems must operate to prevent abrupt and irreversible environment...

Nicholas Steno Answer This man became a catholic bishop, challenged the tear theory, and is known as the Father of Stratigraphy Law of Original Horizontality Answer This principle states sediments are deposited under the influence of gravity as nearly horizontal beds. Law of Superposition Answer This principle states that top layers of rock are younger than bottom layers. Law of Faunal (Flaural) Succession Answer Sedimentary rock strata contain fossilized flora and fauna that these foss...

Rutgers Dinosaurs Exam 1 | Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update 2024/2025 Nicholas Steno - Answer -This man became a catholic bishop, challenged the tear theory, and is known as the Father of Stratigraphy Law of Original Horizontality - Answer -This principle states sediments are deposited under the influence of gravity as nearly horizontal beds. Law of Superposition - Answer -This principle states that top layers of rock are younger than bottom layers. Law of Faunal (Flaural) ...

In the middle Jurassic, the much of the western part of North America was: A. Covered with vast inland sea B. Small islands C. Buried in glacier ice A tropical jungle Covered with vast inland sea New oceanic crust is added at _______ boundaries, and old crust is subducted and recycled at _______ boundaries. A. Divergent, convergent B. Divergent, transform C. Transform, convergent D. Convergent, divergent Divergent, convergent