Mesozoic Animals/Plants
THE Mesozoic
Pangaea
Extinction of Animals
Do you know your facts?
100
What type of animal dominated the Earth during the Mesozoic Era?
a Dinosaur.
100
What was the mesozoic? Eon, Era, Period, or Epoch.
An Era
100
What was the major part of the mesozoic era?
The break-up of Pangaea
100
There is a hypotheses that the extinction came about by catostraphic events... True or False?
True
100
When the species went extinct, how much percent was it?
90%
200
What was the basic life that developed in this era?
birds, dinosaurs, and flowering plants
200
What eon was the mesozoic era in?
The Phanerozoic
200
How did Pangaea break apart?
Continental drift
200
Some believe that dinosaurs and other sea animals went extinct in the _________ flood
Global
200
A large portion of mesozoic rocks are _____________
Sedimentary Rocks
300
what type of plants developed?
Pines, firs, and junipers
300
What 3 periods were within the Mesozoic era?
Triassic, Jurassic, and the Cretaceous
300
How long did the process of Pangaea last?
200 million years
300
Another theory for the extinction for reptiles/dinosaurs, is that small mammals ate their eggs.. could that happen or not?
this could not happen because mammals were not coexistent during the time of dinosaurs.. mammals did not occur until the next era.. long after dinosaurs were extinct.
300
Birds are believed to evolve from what?
Dinosaurs
400
What characteristics did reptiles have that insects had previously?
they began to fly
400
What era was known for the "Age of Reptiles"?
the mesozoic era
400
Pangaea went from the mesozoic into the _______
Cenozoic
400
What is a reason that herbivores could not survive?
herbivores eat plants, if there were no more plants to eat.. herbivores would starve.
400
What dominated life in the ocean during the mesozoic?
Corrals
500
While some animals were in the sky.. others were in the __________
sea.
500
How long did the mesozoic era span out for?
183 million years
500
Tectonic activity began in the __________ throughout the _______
began in the Jurrasic into the Cretaceous.
500
Smaller animals survived because.. ___________
they needed less food than the big huge dinosaurs
500
How did some of the oceans form?
They formed by Pangaea, what use to be one big ocean is now many oceans.. by the breaking up of Pangaea.