Overview
fully answer each question
1. Describe why there are such massive petroleum deposits in the Persian Gulf region.
2. The effect of the meteorite impact at the end of the Cretaceous is thought to have been ______.
3. A significant change in land-plant communities occurred in the Cretaceous with the evolution of what?
4. Briefly state whether ectotherms or endotherms require more food and why.
5. Describe global climate on Pangaea during the Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic.How did the breakup of the supercontinent affect global climate?
6. How distinct were Mesozoic mammals from their reptile neighbors?
7. In what ways did the breakup of Pangaea affect geologic and biologic events on Earth?
8. What features do ammonites have that make them excellent guide fossils for the Mesozoic?
9. What was the ancestor of both the saurischian and ornithischian dinosaurs, and what were these creatures like?
10. What was the effect of the global rise in sea level during the Cretaceous?
11. At their greatest extent during the Pleistocene, glaciers covered about ________ as much of Earth’s surface as they do now.
12. Briefly describe the multi-regional view of human evolution
13. Briefly state the arguments against the human cause for the extinction of large mammals at the end of the Pleistocene.
14. Name, from oldest to youngest, the three groupings into which the Cenozoic is divided.
15. What is the distinction between browsers and grazers?
16. Briefly describe the “out of Africa” view of human evolution.
17. Briefly state the arguments against the climate change hypothesis for the Pleistocene extinction.
18. During the last two million years, there have been at least ________ warm-cold cycles.
19. During the Pleistocene of North America, there were at least __________ glacial stages. These stages, in order from oldest to youngest, are the __________, __________, __________, and __________.
20. How did the Cenozoic tectonic conditions of eastern and western North America differ?
21. How were Neanderthals different from modern humans?
22. group of hoofed mammals which are even-toed are the __________, while those which have an odd number of toes are the __________. (P.636)
23. The sea level (decreased/increased) ________ (amount) _______ during the maximum glacial coverage of the Pleistocene.?
24. What is the prehistoric overkill hypothesis, and what evidence supports overkill as the reason for the Pleistocene extinctions?
25. Since the appearance of Cro-Magnon, what has been the major area of human evolution?