Geo Quiz 4

Question 1

Wegener

Answer 1

German climate scientist who posed Pangea

Question 2

ductile defamation

Answer 2

irreversible bending of rock layers

Question 3

pseudosuchaians

Answer 3

a type of reptile, a sister taxa of dinosaurs that’s more related to crocs and gators

Question 4

chinle formation

Answer 4

late triassic sequence of red beds

Question 5

osteoderms

Answer 5

boney scale-like pieces of skin on pseudosuchaians

Question 6

camp

Answer 6

Central Atlantic Magmatic Province

Question 7

LIP

Answer 7

Large Ingenous Province

Question 8

Monsoon

Answer 8

seasonal increase of rainfall during summers

Question 9

Saurapodomorph

Answer 9

basal most sauropod ansestor

Question 10

Grallator

Answer 10

ichnotaxa of theropod dinosaurs

Question 11

Ichnotaxa

Answer 11

Ichno means trace fossil

Question 12

Eubrontes

Answer 12

a much larger Ichnotaxa of a dilophosauras

Question 13

Lagerstätten

Answer 13

a sedimentary deposit with exceptional fossil preservation

Question 14

chemical stratification

Answer 14

water “layers” within the lake that contain different amounts of oxygen