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Bio 1500 Final Exam Mizzou 1 Questions With Correct Answers. Recognize dragonflies as formidable aerial and aquatic predators - answerDragonflies live in water for the first two years of their life. After this adult dragonflies hunt other flying insects while they are flying themselves; they cannot feed while walking or sitting. Identify dragonflies as ancient insects (when, what, why) - answerCarboniferious, meganura, first insects to fly, selection pressures Develop more than one hypoth...

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...

PALEO 200 Introductions to Dinosaurs in the Fossil Record Midterm Exam University of Alberta

PALEO 200 Introduction to Dinosaurs in the Fossil Record Lecture notes 1-12 university of Alberta

PALEO 200 Introduction to Dinosaurs in the Fossil Record 2025 complete exam review University of Alberta

PALEO 200 Introductions to Dinosaurs in the Fossil Record University of Alberta

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...

Introduction to Dinosaurs (GLGY 305) Question and answers already passed Charles Darwin - correct answer Discovered and coined term: natural selection Explained why species change, but not how Natural Selection - correct answer When certain variations in species are better suited to their environment, they stay alive long enough to reproduce, meaning other variations die back or off altogether. Evolution by Natural Selection - correct answer After many years of natural selecti...

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

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...