What is CAMP?
This is the full name of the volcanic event abbreviated as CAMP.
What is the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province?
This gas released by CAMP blocked sunlight and cooled the Earth.
What is sulfur dioxide (SO2)?
This is the name of the mass extinction event triggered by CAMP.
What is the End-Triassic Extinction?
Dinosaurs were able to fill empty ecological roles because competitors were gone — these openings are called this.
What are ecological niches?
CAMP split Pangaea into these two landmasses.
What are Laurasia and Gondwana?
CAMP eruptions began approximately this many million years ago.
What is 201 million years ago?
After the volcanic winter, a spike in this gas caused greenhouse warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
Approximately this percentage of all species were wiped out.
What is 76%?
This type of long-necked dinosaur rapidly expanded as herbivores after CAMP.
What are sauropodomorphs?
This new ocean began forming as Pangaea split apart.
What is the proto-Atlantic Ocean?
CAMP lava covered an area larger than this modern continent.
What is Europe?
CO2 warming caused this process to damage marine ecosystems.
What is ocean acidification?
These large croc-like archosaurs were among the biggest losers of the extinction.
What are crurotarsans?
The rapid diversification of dinosaurs into new roles after CAMP is called this.
What is opportunistic radiation?
CAMP lava flows can be found today on this many continents.
What is 4 continents?
CAMP eruptions occurred over approximately this span of time.
What is 600,000 years?
CAMP released this many times more CO2 than all current fossil fuel reserves combined.
What is 3 times more?
The extinction can be seen in rock layers worldwide as a dark layer rich in this element.
What is carbon?
Dinosaurs had this type of posture that gave them an advantage over slower competitors.
What is upright posture?
The living descendants of dinosaurs that exist today.
What are birds (avian dinosaurs)?
CAMP volcanism was triggered by the rifting apart of this supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
This type of precipitation, caused by SO2 mixing with water vapor, damaged plant life globally.
What is acid rain?
These two groups, besides crurotarsans, also went extinct during the End-Triassic event.
What are giant amphibians and mammal-like reptiles?
Besides posture, dinosaurs likely had these two biological advantages that helped them survive CAMP's aftermath.
What are efficient lungs and higher metabolisms?
Because of their avian descendants, dinosaurs hold this distinction among land vertebrate groups.
What is the longest-reigning land vertebrate group in history?