quiz 3

Question 1

Paleozoic Ice Age

Answer 1

CO2 will decline
was caused by the evolution of land plants
Global Climate cooling and sea level falling

Question 2

Icehouse world

Answer 2

Lower temp, lower sea level, more ice

Question 3

Greenhouse world

Answer 3

Higher temp, higher sea level, and less ice
(Earth’s climate exists in 2 phases icehouse and greenhouse the earth is happy in either one defined by temp, ice volume, and sea level)

Question 4

Gondwana

Answer 4

South part of Pangea

Question 5

Laurentia

Answer 5

This is where we are living right now, north part of Pangea

Question 6

Proxy evidence

Answer 6

Geological data that indirectly demonstrates environmental change

Question 7

PPM

Answer 7

Parts per million it is how we measure atmospheric concentration

Question 8

Atmospheric CO2

Answer 8

420ppm today

Question 9

Carboniferous

Answer 9

The second to last period of the Paleozoic made up of Pennsyluian and Mississippian

Question 10

Mutualism

Answer 10

Additive relationship between two or more species

Question 11

CO2 drawdown

Answer 11

Removal of CO2 from the atmosphere

Question 12

Amniotes

Answer 12

Terrestrial egg- layers

Question 13

Squamates

Answer 13

Living reptiles

Question 14

Mass extinction

Answer 14

When the rate of new taxa evolving is less than the extinction rate
Rate means a quantity over time
It has to happen over a short time period

Question 15

Large igneous Provence

Answer 15

An area of voluminous volcanic eruptions
In particular, we call this province the Siberian traps

Question 16

Cartilaginous

Answer 16

Lack of a bony skeleton so you have cartilage instead
Soft pliable
Fish that do not have bony skeletons
Like sharks!

Question 17

Lystosaurs

Answer 17

A mammal-like reptile that survived the permio extinction, they have 2 big teeth

Question 18

Crepuscular

Answer 18

Active during dawn and dusk