The study of life from ancient past based on fossils and remains.
100
What Metal is the core of the earth primarily composed of?
Iron (Fe).
100
During what time period did Dinosaurs go extinct?
What is During the Cretaceous Period.
100
What is considered to be the number one reason for species extinction?
What is habitat loss
200
True or false it was an explosion?
What is False it was an expansion
200
Which Epoch is the most recent Epoch studied in Paleontology?
Holocene.
200
List 4 of the 5 effects of Plate tectonic movement (250 points if you get all 5).
Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Trenches, Mountains, and Earthquakes.
200
What two reasons caused the extinction of the Woolly Mammoth?
What is Poor habitats as a result of climate change and being hunted out by humans
200
About 439 million years ago, __% of all life on earth was wiped out.
A. 17% B. 86% C. 43% D. 27%
86%
300
Aristotle believed that the universe had an infinite or finite past?
What is Infinite Past
300
What Petrified material is found in northern Arizona?
Wood (The Petrified Forest).
300
What are the Three types of tectonic movements?
Transform, Divergent, and Convergent Boundaries.
300
Name 2 Herbivores and 2 Carnivores that lived during the Quaternary period.
What is Possible Answers: Herbivores such as mammoth, mastodon, giant bison and woolly rhinoceros carnivores such as saber toothed cats, cave bears and dire wolves.
300
How many animals are currently on the Critically Endangered and Endangered species list?
45
400
what is the name of the theory Albert Einstein discovered to fortify the Big Bang Theory?
What is Relativity Theory
400
Name Two of the Four most common fossils found in the world.
Ammonite (Mollusk), Snail, Shark Tooth, and Brachiopod (Shell).
400
Why do Tectonic Plates move?
The movement and circulation of the Magma in the upper crust of the Mantle.
400
What was the first “explosion” of life? During what era and period? And in what form?
What is Invertebrates in the ocean during the Paleozoic era in the Cambrian period.
400
Which time period was considered the worst mass extinction, wiping out about 96% of the species on earth?
What is the Permian-Triassic Extinction
500
How old is the oldest planet in the Milky Way and what is it?
What is Earth about 13 billion years old.
500
What are the Five types of Trace Fossils?
Insect preserved in amber, Petrified wood (permineralization), Cast and mold of a clam shell, Pyritized ammonite, and Compression fossil of a fern.
500
There are many Tectonic Plates on Planet Earth, name the main 7.
African, Indo-Australian, Antarctic, Eurasian, North American, Pacific, and South American Plates.
500
Primates diverged from other mammals____ years ago. Name 3 primitive primates.
What is 65 million years ago and emurs, galagos and lorises (possible).
500
What is considered to be different about how extinction events are occurring in this time period compared to extinction events in the past?
In the past many extinction events were due to volcanic activity or asteroids but during this time period it is because of human activity. Human activity is causing global warming to occur quicker, resulting in the extinction of animals to happen 10 to 100 times quicker than normal.