twist- Questions and Answers
Explore each location and determine whether coralgal reefs or giant forams are present. PETM
coralalgal reefs, coralalgal reefs, Foram - dominated, Foram - dominated, Foram -
dominated
Explore each location and determine whether coralgal reefs or giant forams are present. Eocene
Foram - dominated, Foram - dominated, Foram - dominated, Foram - dominated, Foram -
dominated,
What was happening to the coral reefs during this interval? Coralgal reefs collapsed and
did not recover afterwards
Given that the rate of temperature change today is 0.8 °C/century (compared to 0.01 °C/century
during the PETM), determine all of the possible inferences we can draw from our PETM study.
Coral reefs will suffer mass collapse.
It's time to put it all together. Use what you have learned in this lesson to create a conclusion for
your Blue Planet Report below. temporarily migrated toward the poles, temporarily
increase, collapsed, slower, underestimate
Click on each eon of Earth's history on the timeline above to view the dominant lifeforms, then
characterize what you see. Unknown, microscopic, microscopic, macroscopic