Dinosaurs Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is extinction? correct answer: The loss or death of a species What is mass extinction? correct answer: A decline in biodiversity greater than the background extinction rate What is background extinction? correct answer: Background extinction occurs when certain populations are reduced to zero because of normal environment change, emerging disease, predation pressure, or competition with another species How are mass extinctions detected and how many have been detected? correct an...

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Megalosaurus Found fragments in England. 1st one to be scientifically discovered. Bipedal predaceous (theropod) Iguanodon first found fragments in Sussex England. Found the 1st complete skeleton in coal mines in Belgium later on Hylaeosaurus Armored reptile/Ankylosaurus. Found fragments in England "Dinosauria" - who came up with it, what it means, and concept of this clade/year Who: Richard Owen Meaning: "Deinos" - terrible, "sauros" - lizard/reptile Clade: bony sockets, large sa...

Nicholas Steno Answer This man became a catholic bishop, challenged the tear theory, and is known as the Father of Stratigraphy Law of Original Horizontality Answer This principle states sediments are deposited under the influence of gravity as nearly horizontal beds. Law of Superposition Answer This principle states that top layers of rock are younger than bottom layers. Law of Faunal (Flaural) Succession Answer Sedimentary rock strata contain fossilized flora and fauna that these foss...

First dinosaur scientifically named and described who named it? what year? Megalosaurus Buckland 1824 First dinosaur scientifically named and described in the US? named by? Deinodon (and Trachodon) Leidy New Jersey Dinosaur Hadrosaurus

In the middle Jurassic, the much of the western part of North America was: A. Covered with vast inland sea B. Small islands C. Buried in glacier ice A tropical jungle Covered with vast inland sea New oceanic crust is added at _______ boundaries, and old crust is subducted and recycled at _______ boundaries. A. Divergent, convergent B. Divergent, transform C. Transform, convergent D. Convergent, divergent Divergent, convergent

In what time period, did the Dinosaurs originate? a) Silurian b) Permian c) Triassic d) Jurassic e) Cretaceous f) Paleogene c) Triassic At the end of which time period, did the Dinosaurs die out? a) Silurian b) Permian

Question 1. What two things do nodes represent on phylogenies? Nodes represent the most recent common ancestor of two or more descendant lineages and represent a speciation event. Question 2. Compare the branching patterns of phylogenies 1-3 above. Which statement below correctly describes the patterns among trees 1-3? Tree 1 = Tree 2 Question 3. Which node represents the MRCA for taxa F and G? 3 Question 4. Which taxon or taxa is/are the sister group to E + F? D, G, H Question 5. If y...

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OrnithischianClade of dinosaurs- Herbivores; horned-face dinosaurs;had pelvic structure similar to birds (i.e triceratops, stegosaurus) SaurischianCarnivores; differentiated from ornithischians by their forward pointing pubis SauropodHerbivores, long- necked, massive in size, 5 toes; first appeared in Triassic period, includes largest animals to ever live on land TheropodA group of Saurischian dinosaurs; mid Triassic- Cretaceous, dominant terrestrial carnivores. found w/ a lizard in i...

ABCTE Elementary Education Exam 206 Questions with Verified Answers Magna Carta - CORRECT ANSWER (1215) a charter of liberties (freedoms) that King John "Lackland" of Englad was forced to sign; it made the king obey the same laws as the citizens of his kingdom 13th Ammendment - CORRECT ANSWER officially abolished slavery, prohibits involuntary servitude. Articles of Confederation - CORRECT ANSWER 1st Constitution of the U.S. (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, n...