Responses to Change
The change of species over time that helps them adapt to their environments.
What is Evolution?
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In the late Paleozoic, some fish like organisms spent part of their lives on land.
What is are amphibians?
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Dinosaurs and reptiles dominated the Mesozoic era, but another kind of animal also lived during this time.
What are mammals?
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The large mammals of the Cenozoic era.
What are mega-mammals?
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This spans from the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 mya, to present day.
How long is the Cenzoic era?
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When animals are unable to adapt to climate and geography changes.
What is animals become extinct?
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An oxygen-poor environment where over time plant material turns into coal.
What is coal swamps?
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Dinosaur species and other large vertebrate species could not adapt to the changes.
What is they became extinct?
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The mammals that live in Austrailia today.
What are marsupials?
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This collision began to push up the Himalayans.
What happened when India crashed into Asia?
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Causes geographic areas to separate.
What is the movement of tectonic plates?
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By the end of the Paleozoic era, earth's continents had formed a giant super continent.
What is Pangaea?
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Not all Mezozoic species were vertabrates. Name the ones who lived in water and some lived in the sky.
What are Plesiosaurs and Pterosaurs?
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Types are Wolly mammoths, giant sloths, and saber toothed cats.
What are some types of mega-mammals?
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A time when a large portion of earth's surface is covered by glaciers
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When the environment changes quickly and species do not adapt to the changes in time.
What is they die?
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The largest mass extinction event in Earth's history. That occurred at the end of the Paleozoic era.
What is the Permian mass extinction?
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Scientist hypothesize that some Dinosaurs are more closely related to________instead of reptiles.
What are present-day birds?
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This provided a route for animal migration.
What was South America was linked to Antartica?
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When sea level was at it's lowest this happened.
When was the Florida Peninsula about twice as wide as it is today?
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Gas and dust from volcanoes can block sunlight and reduce temperatures.
What causes climate change ?
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The first animals that did not require water for reproduction.
What are reptiles?
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The Mesozoic era ended 66 mya with a mass extinction.
What is The Cretaceous extinction event?
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This was found in the Los-Angeles tar pits.
What is the saber-toothed cat skull?
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The era that was warm like the Mesozoic era.
What was the climate like in the early Cenozoic era?
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