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ESCI 102 final cumulative review
Spring 2005
Name the three different evolutionary paths for flying animals.
What kind of mammals do not give birth to fully developed young?
What are the two dinosaur groupings, and what bone distinguishes them?
What makes mammals unique?
Why are ocean currents important?
When did dinosaurs first evolve?
What does endothermic and exothermic mean?
How many bones do reptiles have in their ear? Mammals?
What feature of angiosperms allowed them to become the dominant plant?
What did a world-wide Iridium layer tell us?
Why are angiosperms so diverse?
What are theropods?
Do birds come from the Saurichian or Orinichian line?
Why does increased Sea-floor Spreading cause sea-levels to rise?
How does tectonics affect the climate?
How does geology tell us about climate?
Why is oil so prevalent at former triple junctions?
What is the importance of circumpolar currents?
What caused the Cretaceous seaway to open up?
What is the difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms?
What did birds and mammals evolve from?
What is the evidence for endothermic dinosaurs?
What is the group of dinosaurs that is carnivorous?
How do you know something had feathers?
What is a lycopod?
What type of animal did all land animals come from?
What group of animals was affected most in the Triassic extinction?
Where are the two major areas of mountain-building in the Cenozoic?
What % of geologic time does the Cenozoic include?
Did the closure of the Tethys Sea have a major impact on the marine life in the region?
Why are there so many epochs in the Cenozoic?
Why do we find Marine rocks and fossils at the highest peaks in the Himalayas?
When and how did the Tethys Sea close?
What era are we currently in? What period? What epoch?
What triple junction is forming on the NE side of Africa in the Cenozoic?
What were the consequences of the closing of the Tethys?
How does the angle of descent affect subduction?
What is a triple junction?
What climate changes occurred from the Triassic to the cretaceous?
Ichthyosaurs are examples of convergent or divergent evolution?
What can the shape of teeth tell us about the lives of extinct animals?
What was one challenge to migration during the Mesozoic?
What did the break-up of Pangaea do to sea-level and why?
What are the characteristics of the phylum “Chordata?”
Why are marine animals so well preserved if the ocean crust recycles? How do we get
fossils of marine animals before 200mya?
What did reptiles develop that allowed them to move further on land?
What was the advantage of a vascular plant?
How did the first jaw evolve? What did it look like?
What is a vascular system? Why is it important to plant evolution?
Put the following in order of evolution:
Animals: reptiles, multi-celled organisms, birds, fish, single-celled organisms,
amphibians, mammals, reptiles, dinosaurs
Plants: grasses, blue-green algae, grasses, vascular plants, angiosperms, flowering
plants, land-plants gymnosperms
What was the “age of fish?”
What is evolutionary opportunism? Give one example in Devonian fish?
What is a notochord?
What is a vertebrate?
What caused the mountain-building event in the Rockies?
Which is more stable, an interglacial or a glacial system?
How did the gulf-stream aid in glaciation?
What are the characteristics of a glacial system? An interglacial system?
Why do we have volcanism in the North western part of the US?
Why do we not have excellent correlation among the areas of glaciation if it was so
widespread?
When did the Pleistocene begin and why?
Which plate tectonic movements affected climate the most during the Cenozoic?
How glacial stages defined, if glaciers erase evidence of their predecessors?
How do ice cores tell you about temperature cycles?
What ratio is used to measure temperature?
At what boundary do Island Arcs occur?
What geologic process is the Pleistocene best known for?
What are the three climate drivers?
What is the difference between how marsupial and placental mammals’ young develop?
What is one theory to why mammals got so large in the Pleistocene?
What leaf structure is indicative of higher temp and higher precipitation?
What evidence do we have in the rock record that would suggest ice-ages?
What is a moraine?
What is the overall trend in climate over the last 65 million years?
How did plate tectonics change ideas about continental drift?
What does dolomite consist of?
What geologic process is occurring in Sumatra and how do we know?
When did we first get life?
Why is there oceanic crust at the top of mountains?
Why is the North American Cordillera much wider than the Andes?
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
What is the reason that older lithosphere subducts under younger lithosphere?
What is an Orogeny?
What plate is subducted under N. America?
What happened to all of the other hominids, did they die out or did they interbreed?
What climate changes forced the change to bipedalism?
What were the first hominids that were found outside of Africa?
What would be the reason that the oldest hominid fossil would look more human than
later ones?
When did the ape and human lineages diverge?
What is the earliest member of the genus homo?
What does it take to be a hominid?
What kind of hominid was Lucy?
What are the differences between Homo S. Sapiens and Homo S. Neanderthalis?
What are two kinds of bipedalism?