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| Two groups of seed plands |
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| Carboniferous coal swamp trees with leaf scars |
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| supercontinent of permian period |
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what allowed reptiles to become fully terrestrial
amnioitc egg |
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| carbonifersous repeditive cyclic deposits of marine and terrestrial sediments indicating periods of marine transgression and regression |
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| permian snail backed reptiles |
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| laurasia and gondwanaland by tethys sea |
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| break up of massive permian supercontinent in triassic began with seperation of what two continents, and by what sea |
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| dominatly composed the createous reefs |
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| CONSISTED OF THREE SEPERATE MOUNTIAN BUILDING EPISODES THAT MOVED PROGRESSIVLEY EAST |
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| THE CORDILLERAN OROGENY MADE THE WESTERN PART OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WHAT KIND OF BOUNDARY |
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| INLAND OCEAN THAT SEPERATED EASTERN FROM WESTERN NORTH AMERICA IN THE LATE CREATEOUS |
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| THE GREAEST MASS EXTINCTION IN EARTHS HISTORY CAME AT THE END OF THIS PERIOD |
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| are classified into three groups based on ornimentation |
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| the unique feature of the angiosperms |
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| the ruling reptiles that include, gators, flying reptiles, dinos, and birds |
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ornithischians
saurischians |
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| two major groups of dinosaurs |
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| flying dinosaurs abundant in the mesozoic |
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Some fossils indicate some dinosaurs had feathers
2 some have large brain compaired to body size
fossils found in mountain areas
some mature more rapid than cold blooded animals |
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| evidence that some dinos were warm blooded |
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| ichtyosaurs mesosaurs plesiosaurs |
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| three groups of mesozic swimming reptiles |
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1. reptiles have more teeth and are all the same
2. reptiles replace lost teeth
3. mamals have 2 sets of teeth
4. teeth of mammals are shaped different for different task |
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| difference between mammal and reptile teeth |
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marsupials (care for animals in pouch)
placeutals (all others) |
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| 2 types of mammals and there differences |
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circum-pacific orognic belt
alpine-himalayn orogonic belt |
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| orogenic activity occured in cenozoic in what two areas |
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| pleistocene (initially started in cretaceous) |
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| when last major glaciation occurred |
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mountain
continental
ice shelves |
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| 3 major types of glaciers |
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| cenozoic era is reffered to as |
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| cenozoic era is reffered to as |
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| the grouop most effected by extinction in pleistocene epoch |
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overkill by humans
climate change |
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| theories affecting extinction in pleistocene |
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| supercontinent that existed 1.3 - 1 billion years agoe |
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1.baltica
2. china
3. gondwana
4. kasakhastania
5. laurentia
6. siberia |
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| 6 continents that exsisted at beginning of paleozoic |
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craton (shield,centeral stable)
Belt (mountain building, active) |
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| 2 major portions of a continent |
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| number of times north american craton has been transgressed an regressed during phanerozoic |
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| period when abundant shell animals first appeared |
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| trilobites brachiopods archeaocyathids |
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| 3 dominant invertabrate animal types in cambrian |
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| grapolites and condonts make excellent index fossils for these two periods |
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byrophytes
treacheophytes |
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| two basic land plant types |
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| period known as age of fishes |
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nautoloids(straight shell)
ammonites (cooiled complex shell) |
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| 2 dominant groups of cephalopods in paleozoic |
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| most advanced and dominant of all fish and vertebreates |
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earliest form of amphibians
originating in the devonian period |
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fins to feet
gills to lungs |
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| two major challanges facing animals going from water to land |
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long term storage
intermidiate storage
short term storage |
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