Jurassic period
During which era did the Jurassic period occur?
What is The Mesozoic Era?
What nickname is commonly given to the Devonian period?
What is The Age of Fishes?
The Paleogene period began right after which major event?
What is The mass extinction that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous?
The Cretaceous period is best known for ending with what major event?
The mass extinction that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs.
The Permian period is the final period of which era?
The Paleozoic Era.
What major super continent began to break apart during the Jurassic period?
What is Pangaea?
During the Devonian, which group of plants became the first to form large forests?
What is Early trees such as lycophytes, horsetails, and ferns?
Which group of animals rapidly diversified during the Paleogene and came to dominate many land ecosystems?
What are mammals?
What new type of plant became widespread during the Cretaceous?
Flowering plants (angiosperms).
What supercontinent reached its full formation during the Permian?
Pangaea.
Which type of environment covered much of the Jurassic world, allowing large plant-eating dinosaurs to thrive?
What is Warm, humid climates with extensive forests and lush vegetation?
What major evolutionary transition occurred as some lobe-finned fish began adapting to life on land?
What is The evolution of early tetrapods—the first vertebrates with limbs capable of supporting weight on land?
What was the global climate generally like during much of the early Paleogene?
What is this Very warm, with tropical conditions extending farther toward the poles than today?
What was happening to sea levels during much of the Cretaceous?
They were very high, creating large shallow inland seas on continents.
Which group of vertebrates, often considered early relatives of mammals, became widespread during the Permian?
Synapsids (such as Dimetrodon and later therapsids).
What important evolutionary development occurred in marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs during the Jurassic?
what is evolving into more streamlined, fish-like bodies adapted for fast swimming?
What major reef-building organisms suffered a significant decline during Late Devonian extinction events?
What is the Stromatoporoids and some coral groups?
Which major geological event in the Paleogene helped shape modern ocean circulation by separating Australia from Antarctica?
What is The opening of the Tasmanian Gateway?
Which major dinosaur group continued to dominate large herbivore roles in many ecosystems during the Cretaceous?
Hadrosaurs (duck-billed dinosaurs) and ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs).
What major climate shift occurred during the Permian that affected life on land and in the oceans?
A general trend toward drier, more desert-like conditions across much of Pangaea.
Which early bird, known from Late Jurassic fossils, provides key evidence linking dinosaurs and modern birds?
What is Archaeopteryx?
What geological change during the Devonian contributed to atmospheric oxygen rising, influencing animal evolution?
What is The expansion of large terrestrial forests, which increased photosynthesis and long-term carbon burial?
What was the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and why is it important?
What is a rapid, extreme global warming event caused by a massive release of carbon?
What geological evidence supports the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous?
A worldwide layer of iridium-rich clay, shocked quartz, and the Chicxulub crater in Mexico.
What is the main suspected cause of the end-Permian mass extinction, the largest extinction event in Earth’s history?
Massive volcanic eruptions in the Siberian Traps, which released huge amounts of greenhouse gases, causing extreme global warming and ocean changes.