Pleistocene Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

FW 104 CSU EXAM 2 Questions With Verified And Updated Answers. Pleistocene Overkill Hypothesis - answerStates that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna at the close of the Pleistocene, approximately 10,000 years ago, from overhunting as human populations expanded at that time. Market Hunting Era (Era of Exploitation) - answer: Myth of superabundance; dark time for wildlife, new Americans claimed the right and duty to tame the land, loss of Passenger pigeons an...

ASM 246 Arizona State University -ASM 246 Weeks 6-7, ASM 246 Weeks 4-5 with correct answerspotential cannibalism - correct answer Cutmarks found on fossilized hominin bones from the middle Pleistocene of Bodo, Ethiopia are often used as evidence of what? relatively small cranial capacity compared to other Homo species. - correct answer One of the most surprising discoveries in the field of paleoanthropology is the species Homo floresiensis. This species is characterized by what? True - cor...

WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions and answers. VERIFIED/ The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two cells. - - mutualistic The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were engulfed by ____. - -larger prokaryotic cells The first hominids appeared at the end of the ____. - -Tertiary The first fungi evolved in the ____. - -Ordovician Francisco Redi did an experiment to show that meat did not ...

ESRM 150 Exam 1 question and answers graded A+ 2023 latest updatewildlife - correct answer any animals living in a wild state (non-domesticated animals) Theories of Historic Extinctions (~80% of flora and fauna died) - correct answer Pleistocene Overkill Climate Change Historical Overexploitation - correct answer Ex: Hunting Passenger Pigeons to feed slaves Lacey Act - correct answer 1-900: Protects plants and wildlife prohibits trade in wildlife, fish and plants still in effect S...

The mass of ice that flows under its own weight and forms when snowfall exceeds snow melt over long periods of time. Occupies ~11% of Earth's land area today. - Glacier 1. Powerful agent of geomorphic change. 2. Source of freshwater - ~77% of all freshwater are locked in glaciers. 3. Release nutrients locked up in rocks. 4. Contributes to change in sea level. - Environmental significance of glaciers Related to water volume and ice volume. - Eustatic sea-level Related to land 'posit...

Quarternary Ice Age Answer - Most recent ice age that started 2.6 million years ago with two epochs (Pleistocene and Holocene) Loch Lomond Stadial Answer - Last glacial advance in the UK 12,000-10,000 years ago in Scottish Highlands caused by Gulf Stream cut off by Lake Agassiz Little Ice Age Answer - Between when average temperatures were 1-2C cooler, resulting in glaciers re-advancing and abandoned settlements in Iceland Eccentricity Cycle Answer - Change in Earth's orbit fr...

WIS2552 Topics 1-8 Multicellularity might have evolved from coloniality. ️true Temperature-dependent sex determination was discovered in a study of ️red-eared turtles Caecilians are not found in the tropics of ️Australia Smaller lizards are mostly adapted for feeding on ️insects The introduced Nile Monitor in Florida may possibly become a threat to native ️burrowing owls Terrestrial Caecilians are mostly adapted for ️burrowing Echinodermata is a phylum of ️deuterosto...

SCI 225 - Exam 2: Study GuideMilankovitch - correct answer related orbital cycles to ice ages charting the ice ages of the Pleistocene - correct answer method by which Milankovitch developed model of Earth's movement and climate change Milankovitch cycles - correct answer eccentricity, obliquity, precession heat, cold - correct answer in relation to eccentricity, _ causes change, not _ Perihelion - correct answer the moment when the Earth is the closest to the sun in its orbit Ap...

The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two cells. correct answers mutualistic The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were engulfed by ____. correct answers larger prokaryotic cells The first hominids appeared at the end of the ____. correct answers Tertiary The first fungi evolved in the ____. correct answers Ordovician Francisco Redi did an experiment to show that meat did not produce maggots by the process of ____. cor...

ASM 246 Weeks 6-7, ASM 246 Weeks 4-5 Arizona State University - Questions with complete solution ASM 246 Weeks 6-7, ASM 246 Weeks 4-5 potential cannibalism - correct answer Cutmarks found on fossilized hominin bones from the middle Pleistocene of Bodo, Ethiopia are often used as evidence of what? relatively small cranial capacity compared to other Homo species. - correct answer One of the most surprising discoveries in the field of paleoanthropology is the species Homo floresiensis. This...