Climate
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Weather is daily conditions, climate is long term conditions.
This time period covers 88% of the geologic time scale and has very few fossils still remaining.
What is Precambrian?
Scientists could find a tropical plant fossil somewhere that has a polar climate? TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
Continents moved. It could have had a warmer climate in the past.
When did mammals become the dominant land animals?
What is the cenozoic era?
What are fossils that were widely distributed and lasted for a relatively short amount of time called?
What are index fossils?
What are three factors that determine the Earth's climate?
HINT: L, A, D
Latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water
When were dinos the dominant land animals?
What is the Mesozoic era?
Why is it important for scientist to use both relative and absolute dating?
Because they may not be able to determine the relative age.
In what era was Pangea formed?
The Paleozioc Era
Why do so few fossils exist from the Precambrian time?
Most of the fossils were destroyed.
What time period did mammals first appear?
Mesozoic Era
Name three ways that rock layers can be disturbed.
Extrusion, intrusion, fault
In what era did lifeforms grown increasingly more complex?
Paleozoic era
What is the greenhouse effect and how does the air feel inside a greenhouse?
Greenhouse Effect: When earth is warmed from greenhouse gases trapping heat.
The air feels warm, with high humidity. The air inside a greenhouse is warmer than the air outside.
What is the purpose of the geologic timescale?
To organize and sequence events about the history of Earth.
In what era did Pangea START to break up?
The Mesozoic Era
In what era did Pangea move to its present day continent position?
The cenozoic era