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Final exam | GLY 130 - DINOSAURS & DISASTERS, Quizzes of Geology

Class: GLY 130 - DINOSAURS & DISASTERS; Subject: Geological Sciences; University: University of Kentucky; Term: Spring 2013;

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TERM 1
Early Paleozoic
DEFINITION 1
Cambrian (542-488 Ma) Ordovician (488-444 Ma) Silurian
(444-416 Ma)
TERM 2
Late Paleozoic
DEFINITION 2
Devonian (416-359 Ma) Carboniferous - Mississippian (359-
318 Ma) -Pennsylvanian (318-299 Ma) Permian (299-252 Ma)
TERM 3
Pannotia
DEFINITION 3
Supercontintent Pannotia breaks apart at or nearbeginning of
Cambrian.
TERM 4
Pangea
DEFINITION 4
Fragments would begin to collide and reassemble toform
Pangea by end of Permian.
TERM 5
Four major continents of the Paleozoic
DEFINITION 5
Gondwana Laurentia Baltica Siberia
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Early Paleozoic

Cambrian (542-488 Ma) Ordovician (488-444 Ma) Silurian

(444-416 Ma)

TERM 2

Late Paleozoic

DEFINITION 2

Devonian (416-359 Ma) Carboniferous - Mississippian (359-

318 Ma) -Pennsylvanian (318-299 Ma) Permian (299-252 Ma)

TERM 3

Pannotia

DEFINITION 3

Supercontintent Pannotia breaks apart at or nearbeginning of

Cambrian.

TERM 4

Pangea

DEFINITION 4

Fragments would begin to collide and reassemble toform

Pangea by end of Permian.

TERM 5

Four major continents of the Paleozoic

DEFINITION 5

Gondwana Laurentia Baltica Siberia

Epeiric Seas

An inland sea is a shallow sea that covers central areas of

continents during periods of high sea level that result in

marine transgressions.

TERM 7

Mobile Belts

DEFINITION 7

Appalachian Cordilleran Ouachita Franklin

TERM 8

Coal Formation

DEFINITION 8

Formed during the Pennslyvanian period of the paleozoic

TERM 9

5 major mountain Building Episodes

DEFINITION 9

Sonoman, Larimide, Antler, Sevier,nevadan

TERM 10

Cyclotherms

DEFINITION 10

Most important geological of the Pennsylvanian. COAL

BASINS

Which group of fish lead to tetrapods?

Lobefinned

TERM 17

The Burgess Shale fauna

DEFINITION 17

510 million-year-old marine community Unique window into

Cambrian life Well-preserved soft-bodied organisms

TERM 18

The Chengjiang

fauna

DEFINITION 18

530 million-year-old fauna Over 180 species, including oldest

vertebratespecimens

TERM 19

Vertebrates

DEFINITION 19

Vertebrates belong to the Phylum Chordata. Notochord Gill

slits Nerve cord Tail

TERM 20

What was the most important evolutionary

step in all invertabrate history?

DEFINITION 20

Jaws

What was the Devonian period know as?

The age of fish

TERM 22

How did the paleozoic

end?

DEFINITION 22

A supervolcano ended it with major mass extiction

TERM 23

Evolution of Mammalness

DEFINITION 23

occured in the PermianLimb placementDifferentiated teeth

Skull constructionMiddle ear region

TERM 24

Mesozoic

DEFINITION 24

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about

. It is often referred to as the Age of Reptiles because

reptiles, namely non-avian dinosaurs, were the dominant

terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time.

TERM 25

Mesozoic time periods

DEFINITION 25

TriassicJurassicCretaceous

Sevier orogeny

Durnig the CretaceousA second tectonic phase east of the

present-day Sierra Nevada mountains. Involved folding and

eastward thrusting in what is nowthe Great Basin.Thrust

faults shortened the crust by more than 100 km (60 mi) in

the Nevada-Utah region.

TERM 32

Laramide Orogeny

DEFINITION 32

Late cretaceous to Cenozoic Deformation shifted eastward

toward the craton. The Rocky Mountains formed in New

Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. The present-day landscape,

is primarily the result of Cenozoic erosion and uplift.

TERM 33

Chinle Formation

DEFINITION 33

Shale, silty shale, sandstone and volcanic ash deposited

inmeandering channels, stream valleys and lakes. In the

Upper triassic

TERM 34

When did flowering plants occur?

DEFINITION 34

During the Cretaceous Period

TERM 35

Where did mammals and birds evolve from?

DEFINITION 35

Ancestral reptile lineages

what group of animals developed

characteristics for dating?

Amminoid Sutures

TERM 37

What were the first flowering plants

called

DEFINITION 37

Angiosperms

TERM 38

What was the first vertebrate to achieve

flight?

DEFINITION 38

Pterosaurs

TERM 39

Bird Hipped

DEFINITION 39

Ornithischia

TERM 40

Lizzard Hipped

DEFINITION 40

Saurischia

What was the most recent episode for an ice

age?

The pleistocene glaciation

TERM 47

What are pluvial lakes

DEFINITION 47

Lakes caused by glaciation.Existed in what are now arid

parts of western United States. Greater precipitation and

overall cooler temperatures. Lake Bonneville was

about50,000 km2 and 335 m deep. Lake Manly was 145 km

long, 180 m deep

TERM 48

WHat are ungulate mammals? How do the

differ?

DEFINITION 48

hoofed mammalseven toed-Artiodactylsodd toed-

Perrissodactyls

TERM 49

What was the primitave group of primates

and what were some adaptions for tree life?

DEFINITION 49

Procimians, Large brains opposible thumbs, and stereoscopic

vision.

TERM 50

Adaptations from land dwelling animals to

aquatic whales

DEFINITION 50

Front limbs modified flippers, rear limbs lost, nostrils

migrated to the top of head, and modificarions to the ear and

sinus cavity.

What epoch did horses began to diversify?

and what groups where they?

During the miocene and went from browsers to grazers.

TERM 52

What was the biggest land animal ever?

DEFINITION 52

Indricotherium

TERM 53

What was the more evolved group of

primates?

DEFINITION 53

Anthropoids

TERM 54

What primates make up

anthropoids?

DEFINITION 54

homonoids and old and new wold monkeys

TERM 55

Adaptions for bipedal locomotion

DEFINITION 55

Foramen magnumlumbar curvepelvisElongates lower

limbsfemurArchitecture of feet