GLY1102: Module 4 Exam Practice Questions
with Verified Correct Answers
The landmasses of the Mid Jurassic were:
divided primarily into two continents - Laurasia and Gondwana
Epicontinental Seas are:
shallow oceans on continental crust.
Sea level from the mid-Jurassic through the Cretaceous was:
much higher than today.
Geologic evidence from Antarctica and other places indicate that the climate of the late
Cretaceous was _________
very warm world-wide
The climate in much of what is now North America during the Early - Mid Jurassic was:
arid (dry) with a vast desert.
Sarchosuchus is:
a giant extinct crocodyliform
Dragonflies are commonly used insect in paleo-art of dinosaurs because they give us a
familiar reference point to convey a sense of scale. This is problematic because:
dragonflies in the Cretaceous were much larger than they are today.
The crocodile-like phytosaurs went extinct at the end of the Triassic, but crocodiloforms:
had some extinctions, but survive to the modern day.
The earliest known angiosperm (flowering plant) may have been a palm-like plant from the
Late Triassic called Sammiguelia. But true flowers don't appear in the fossil record until the:
Early Cretaceous
The earliest known mammal with a neocortex - the part of the brain required for advanced
brain function - was an ancestor of which modern animal?
with Verified Correct Answers
The landmasses of the Mid Jurassic were:
divided primarily into two continents - Laurasia and Gondwana
Epicontinental Seas are:
shallow oceans on continental crust.
Sea level from the mid-Jurassic through the Cretaceous was:
much higher than today.
Geologic evidence from Antarctica and other places indicate that the climate of the late
Cretaceous was _________
very warm world-wide
The climate in much of what is now North America during the Early - Mid Jurassic was:
arid (dry) with a vast desert.
Sarchosuchus is:
a giant extinct crocodyliform
Dragonflies are commonly used insect in paleo-art of dinosaurs because they give us a
familiar reference point to convey a sense of scale. This is problematic because:
dragonflies in the Cretaceous were much larger than they are today.
The crocodile-like phytosaurs went extinct at the end of the Triassic, but crocodiloforms:
had some extinctions, but survive to the modern day.
The earliest known angiosperm (flowering plant) may have been a palm-like plant from the
Late Triassic called Sammiguelia. But true flowers don't appear in the fossil record until the:
Early Cretaceous
The earliest known mammal with a neocortex - the part of the brain required for advanced
brain function - was an ancestor of which modern animal?
