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The Phanerozoic Eon was broken down into 3 eras, please name the 3 eras in order?
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1. Paleozoic Era
2. Mesozoic Era 3. Cenozoic Era |
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The Paleozoic Era was broke down into 6 Periods, please name periods in order?
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1.Cambrian Period 6. Permian Period
2.Ordovician Period 3.Silurian Period 4.Devonian Period 5. Carboniferous Period |
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The Cambrian Period was also known as the what explosion?
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Cambrain Explosion!
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What first appeared during the Cambrian Period?
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All major phyla of animals
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What appeared during the ordovician period?
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the first vertebrates and primative land plants like mosses appeared, because most life lived in water still
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What happened during the Silurian Period? (3)
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The first vascular plants appeared (root structure), jawed fish, freshwater fish, things start to move to land.
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What period was the Age of the Fishes?!
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Devonian Period
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During the Devonian Period what life forms appear? (2)
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first vertebrate fish and amphibians
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What period was considered the Age of the Amphibians?!
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The Carboniferous Period
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The Carboniferous Period was the time you first saw what type of animal?
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hard shell reptiles, the amphibians evolved onto land
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The majority of the coal that we use today was formed during what time of the geologic timescale?
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carboniferous period.
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What period ended with the Mother of Mass Extinction"?
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Permian Period
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The Permian Period what did we see happen? (2)
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1. seed plants
2. amniote eggs |
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The Mesozoic Era was broken down into 3 periods, name them in order?
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1. Triassic Period
2. Jurassic Period 3. Cretaceous Period |
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What dominated during the Triassic Period?
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Small reptiles flourished because the mother of mass extinction made room for them
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What was seen during the Jurassic Period?
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During the Jurassic Period you saw GIANT reptiles, the first birds, frogs and small mammals like rodents
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What was it like during the Cretaceous Period?
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It was like Jurassic Park the movie, lots of biological change, diversity of flowering plants
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The Cenozoic Era has 2 Periods, what are they and in order?
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1. Tertiary Period
2. Quanternary Period |
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What are major highlights from the tertiary period?
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1. adaptive radiation of mammals, all the dinosaurs died in mass extinction during the end of the cretaceous period 2. Grasslands began to replace some forests.
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What time period are we in now?
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Quanternary Period
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