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Eaps 112 Exam 1 - multiple choice Questions & Answers 2023/2024 In comparison to today, early Earth was characterized by ________ . a. a landscape barren and devoid of color b. cooler, stable temperatures c. continents that did not move d. highly diverse life forms living on land and in the oceans e. stable ocean levels - ANSWER-a. a landscape barren and devoid of color The longest unit of geologic time is a(n) ________ . a. Epoch b. Period c. Age d. Eon e. Era - ANSWER-d. Eon ...

EAPS 112 Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2023/2024 What are the three components needed to make steel? - ANSWER-Iron, Coal, Limestone What is relative dating? - ANSWER-Using the layers of rock to sequence the fossils in a sediment. We only know the order, not how long ago an event occurred. What are the different divisions of time? - ANSWER-Eons, eras, periods, epochs What is absolute dating? - ANSWER-Determining the actual age of an event or object in years, usually by radiometric dating...

EAPS 112 Exam 3 Questions & Answers 2023/2024 What are the period of the Mesozoic era? - ANSWER-Triassic (251 - 199 mya) Jurassic (199 - 145 mya) Cretaceous (145 - 65 mya) ~ 190 million years of geologic time What were the tectonics of the Triassic like? - ANSWER-Pangea was completely assembled (Cimmerian and Cathaysain Orogenies), but starting to move apart. The sea level was low, close to modern time. Lots of deserts far away from seas. What was the marine life like in the Triass...

EAPS 112 Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theropods. - ANSWER-True Theropods are the evolutionary ancestors of all dinosaurs. - ANSWER-False Gymnosperms are flowering plants that became common in the Cretaceous. - ANSWER-False Pterosaurs were neither dinosaurs nor birds. - ANSWER-True Evidence of dinosaur endothermy comes in part from bone structure and predator-prey relationships. - ANSWER-True The most abundant members of the m...

EAPS 112 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Cold fusion - ANSWER-Cold fusion was not an acceptable hypothesis because many scientists found flaws in the work and the results could not be reproduced Acceptable hypothesis must be - ANSWER-Testable and repeatable Scientific laws - ANSWER-Gravity, occam's razor of parsimony Scientific theories - ANSWER-Relativity, evolution Scientific hypothesis - ANSWER-Nebular formation of the Solar system Thomas Chamberlin - ANSWER-Proposed t...

EAPS 112 Exam 2 Practice Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Silled basins are thought to be the site of deposition of thick ____ deposits. - ANSWER-evaporite The evolution of jaws played an important role in the evolution of fish because it allowed them to ____. - ANSWER-diversify feeding styles and increase oxygen consumption The ____ Ocean opened along a ____ plate boundary between Laurentia and Baltica. - ANSWER-Iapetus; divergent Which characteristic does not apply to trilobites? a. ...

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EAPS 112 - Chapter 12 Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Organisms that live on or in the seafloor make up the ________ . a. base feeders b. nekton c. benthos d. planktos e. pelagic animals - ANSWER-c. benthos Check My Work The greatest recorded mass extinction to affect Earth occurred at the end of the ________ . a. Silurian b. Ordovician c. Pennsylvanian d. Permian e. Devonian - ANSWER-d. Permian A trilobite that crawled on the ocean floor and fed on microscopic organisms a...

EAPS 112 Final Exam Review Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Understand the basics of how the solar system formed. - ANSWER-Big bang is the accepted manner for the formation of the solar system Understand the composition, physical, and mechanical properties of each of the Earth's layers - ANSWER-Crust (mechanically rigid, composed of silicon/oxygen), mantle (mechanically molten), outer core (liquid), inner core (solid) What is the evidence for continental drift cited prior to the developme...