Glgy Final: History Of Life And Dinosaurs

Front 1

What is the name of the oldest fossils?

Back 1

Cyanobacteria

Front 2

The oldest known fossils (Cyanobacteria) were born in 3.5 billion years ago in what age?

Back 2

Archean

Front 3

explosion of multicellular life happened in what period?

Back 3

Cambrian

Front 4

Burgess shale was the __________ of soft bodied animals and was found in ______________

Back 4

1. preservation

2. B.C

Front 5

What was the age of the fishes

Back 5

Silurian and Devonian

Front 6

What fish had no true teeth or jaws, just bony plates?

Back 6

Armoured fish

Front 7

What is an example of an armoured fish?

Back 7

Dunkleostus

Front 8

What is an evolutionary advantage that bony fishes without armor have over armoured fish?

Back 8

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(Better able to catch moving food)

Front 9

True or false: Some members of the bony fish family developed lungs which could breathe air

Back 9

True

Front 10

What age was the earliest amphibian born

Back 10

Devonian

Front 11

What family did amphibians develop from?

Back 11

Bony fish that had lungs

Front 12

The earliest reptiles where from what age?

Back 12

Carboniferous

Front 13

True or False: reptiles needed to spend time in the water

Back 13

False

Front 14

What age were the first mammals born?

Back 14

Jurassic

Front 15

What was the age of the reptiles

Back 15

Mezezoic ( Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous)

Front 16

The KP/g Extinction killed of about ________ of all known animals and happened around _______ Ma years ago

Back 16

1. 60%

2. 65

Front 17

A 1 cm clay layer with high _________ content marks the boundary between the _________ and __________

Back 17

1. Iridium

2. Cretaceous

3. Paleogene

Front 18

What 3 reasons made scientists hypothesize that the KP/g extintion resulted from an asteroid impact?

Back 18

High iridium content

Glassy beads

Quartz grains

Front 19

When did the biggest extinction event occur?

Back 19

The end of the Permian (248 Ma)

Front 20

What dinosaurs belong to the Saurischia (lizard- hipped) (2 answers)

Back 20

- Sauropods

- Theropods

Front 21

What dinosaurs belong to the Ornithischia (bird hipped) (4 answers)

Back 21

- Hadrosaurs

- Stegosaurs

- Ceratopsians

- Ankylosaurs

Front 22

Hadrosaurs (duckville dinosaurs) lived in which age?

Back 22

Late Cretaceous

Front 23

Ankylosaurs (spikey armor and mace tails) lived in what age?

Back 23

Late Jurassic- Late Cretaceous

Front 24

Ceratopsians (triceratops) lived in what age?

Back 24

Late Cretaceous

Front 25

Stegosaurs (Plates on back) lived in what age?

Back 25

Mid Jurassic- Late Cretaceous

Front 26

early Theropods (non avian) lived i what age?

Back 26

Triassic

Front 27

Sauropods (long neck, long tail) lived in what age?

Back 27

Late Jurassic- Late Cretaceous

Front 28

Most major groups of theropods lived in what age?

Back 28

Cretaceous

Front 29

Tyrannosaurs are a type of what type of dinosaur? and what age did they life in?

Back 29

1. Theropods

2. Late Cretaceous

Front 30

Birds are avian ____________

Back 30

Theropods

Front 31

Modern paleontology is not just about old bones but it is __________

Back 31

interdisciplinary