This took 1-2 years to recover from the asteroid impact
What is the planet?
100
This had to end in order for the "Age of Mammals" to begin.
What is the "Age of Dinosaurs"?
100
This era is when the first human appeared.
What is the Cenozoic Era?
200
This is used to examine and understand dinosaurs.
What is a fossil?
200
They went extinct nearly 65 million years ago.
What are the dinosaurs?
200
This plant was able to rapidly disperse and dominate much of the plant after the extinction event.
What is a fern?
200
The first primates appeared 10 million years after this event.
What is the K/T Boundary Event?
200
The 3 periods the Cenozoic Era is divided into.
What are the Paleogene, Neogene, and the Quaternary periods
300
a prehistoric reptile that first arrived on earth 225 million years ago
What is a dinosaur?
300
An Asteroid.
What caused the dinosaurs to go extinct?
300
The full recovery of North American forests took several ___________________ to a million years.
What is Hundred thousand?
300
Modern bird groups diversified after the extinction of this species.
What is the pterosaurs?
300
This was the period when rodents, small horses, rhinoceroses, and elephants appeared.
What is the Paleogene Period?
400
A dinosaur well know to have small arms but to be a very ferocious and massive carnivore.
What is the Tyrannosaurus Rex?
400
The Asteroid wiped out ______ of all the life forms on earth.
What is 50%?
400
These had unadorned shells and appeared several thousand years after the extinction event.
What are Foraminifera?
400
Within the first 5 million years of the ___________________
large mammals appeared for the first time.
What is the Paleocene Epoch?
400
cattle, sheep, goats, antelope and gazelle flourished during this period.
What is the Neogene Period?
500
This carnivore was misunderstood by pop culture to live in the Jurassic period rather than the Cretaceous period
What is the Velociraptor?
500
All theories of extinction had the common idea that the dinosaurs went extinct because they could not survive against the _______ or the were not able to adapt quickly enough.
What is mammals?
500
It took millions of years for these to become comparable to those that occurred before the extinction event.
What are shells?
500
Mammals evolved into larger and stronger periods during this period.
What is The Tertiary Period?
500
Cave lions, Sabre-toothed cats, cave bears, giant deer, woolly rhinoceroses, and woolly mammoths were prevailing species of this period.