Organisms
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
What are producers?
The Permian Period was mostly hot and ______.
What is dry?
There was a lot rainfall in the Permian. true or false
What is false?
The Permian is known for being the last period of this era.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
This organism group includes humans today.
What are consumers?
Early pine like trees with needles
What are Conifers?
All land was connected into one supercontinent called this.
What is Pangaea?
These were common in desert regions due to dry conditions and loose soil.
What are dust storms?
This supercontinent existed during the Permian.
What is Pangaea?
What is a consumer that eats both plants and meat?
What is an omnivore?
This carnivore had a long, straight, narrow jaw and hunted near water.
What is Ophiacodon?
What was the center of Pangaea like
what is desert like.
Near coasts, storms could cause sudden ______.
What are floods (flash floods)?
What did the Permian Period end in?
What is a huge extinction (the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event)?
We have fossils of this aquatic reptile that show continents were once connected.
What is Mesosaurus?
This was one of the first mammal-like reptiles and a top predator with sharp teeth.
What is Gorgonops?
Why was the center of Pangaea so dry?
Pangaea was too big for storms to stretch across the land
How were day and night temperatures different in the Permian?
Days were very hot and nights were very cold
About how much life died during this extinction?
What is about 90%?
This predator had a sail on its back and fossils show it used it to help control body temperature.
What is Dimetrodon?
These organisms, like small insects, eat dead material.
What are detritivores?
Name one way plants adapted to survive the dry climate.
Examples: needle leaves, thick leaves, storing water
What type of extreme weather cycle happened (long periods without rain)?
What are droughts?
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How was the production of coal stopped during the Permian?
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Fossils of this armored herbivore show it had a large, heavy body and likely ate low plants to survive dry conditions.
What is Pareiasaurus?