Pliocene Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

WIS 2552 EXAM 2 Review Questions and answers, rated A+/ VERIFIED. The Virginia opposum arrive in north america in the ___ - -pliocene about ____ % of all mammals species are in order rodentia - -40 ____ (family) families of marsupials occur in south america - -3 there are ___ surviving species of order monotremata - -3 About ____ of the Marsupials have a permanent pouch for carrying young. - -1/2 The ___ is a desert dwelling antelope in Africa - -Addax Modern___ are thought to be most l...

Paleocene - ️️An epoch of the Paleogene period, 65.5 to 55.8 MYA where Order Sirenia emerged from Tethytheria Eocene - ️️An epoch of the Paleogene period, 55.8 to 33.9 MYA where Pezosiren portelli and the first Mediterranean Tethys- Paratethys ancestors of sirenians emerged; much warmer climate than today Oligocene - ️️An epoch of the Paleogene period, 33.9 to 23 MYA where Family Trichechidae, Subfamily Miosireninae, Trichechinae, and Digonginae were thought to emerge, Halither...

Figure 5. Excitation-emission matrix (EEM) spectra of well water samples collected from Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia. BEN, Balkan endemic nephropathy. (A) Water sample from a nonendemic village in the former Yugoslavia. (B) Water sample from a nonendemic household in a Bulgarian BEN endemic village. (C) Water sample from a BEN household in an endemic village in the former Yugoslavia. (D) Composite EEM spectra resulting from subtraction of the spectra of two water samples collected in n...

WIS 2552 Exam 2 Study Set Exam Questions and answers, rated A+ There are no Bears in Africa - -False The Virginia Opossum arrived in North America in the ___ - -Pliocene The Waterbuck is actually not found in Africa, but rather in southeast Asia - -False ___ is a rocky semi-desert dweller - -Dorcas Gazelle About ___ of the Marsupials have a permanent pouch for carrying young - -1/2 Wilson and Reeder classify the marsupials into ___ orders - -7 Sloths are adapted for a diet of ____ - -Le...

There are no Bears in Africa correct answers False The Virginia Opossum arrived in North America in the ___ correct answers Pliocene The Waterbuck is actually not found in Africa, but rather in southeast Asia correct answers False ___ is a rocky semi-desert dweller correct answers Dorcas Gazelle About ___ of the Marsupials have a permanent pouch for carrying young correct answers 1/2 Wilson and Reeder classify the marsupials into ___ orders correct answers 7 Sloths are adapted ...

The Virginia opposum arrive in north america in the ___ correct answers pliocene about ____ % of all mammals species are in order rodentia correct answers 40 ____ (family) families of marsupials occur in south america correct answers 3 there are ___ surviving species of order monotremata correct answers 3 About ____ of the Marsupials have a permanent pouch for carrying young. correct answers 1/2 The ___ is a desert dwelling antelope in Africa correct answers Addax Modern___ are...

what are the three most important hominin evolutions? - ANSWERthe Pliocene (5 to 2 m.y.a.), Pleistocene (2 m.y.a. to 10,000 B.P.) and Recent (10,000 B.P. to the present) epochs What are the six species in chronological order? - ANSWER1. A. anamensis (4.2 to 3.9 m.y.a.). 2. A. afarensis (3.8? to 3.0 m.y.a.). 3. A. africanus (3.0? to 2.0? m.y.a.). 4. A. garhi (2.5 m.y.a.) 5. A. robustus (2.0? to 1.0? m.y.a.). 6. A. boisei (2.6? to 1.0 m.y.a.). afarensis's brain capacity - ANSWER450 cc ...

what makes us human? - ANSWERBipedalism, brains, skulls, Childhood dependency, tools, teeth biopedalism - ANSWERstresses the advantages it provided in a habitat increasingly dominated by dry, savanna-like conditions. Brains and skulls - ANSWEREarly hominins had very small brains, Brain size has increased during hominin evolution, especially with the advent of the genus Homo. Childhood dependency - ANSWERCompared with the young of other primates, human children have a long period of chil...

Era (youngest to oldest)Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Proterozoic, Archean, Hadean Period (youngest to oldest)Quaternary, Neogene, Paleogene, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, Permian, Carboniferous, Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician, Cambrian, Ediacaran Epoch (youngest to oldest)Holocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene, Paleocene Principle of Superpositionolder rocks will be on the bottom while younger rocks will be on the top, can be used to get a rough estimate of time...

ASM 246 Arizona State University -ASM 246 week 3 quiz well answered graded A+True or False: Adapids and omomyids had skeletal features similar to those of New World monkeys, such as postorbital closure and a prehensile tail - correct answer False! What is the Arboreal Hypothesis? - correct answer The idea that primates evolved because they developed adaptations for living in trees What traits were characteristics of primates as they adapted to living in trees? - correct answer Nails to gra...