Extinction Part 1

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1. What % of species has gone extinct?

2. What changes may bring about extinction?

3. What happen approximately 65 mya?

4. Over the most recent 500 million years how many mass extinctions have
occurred?

5. What ended the Permian? How do we know?

6. What period followed the Permian?

7. How is an ecosystem similar to a “house of cards”?

8. What type of animals survived the end of the Permian?

9. Who were the clear winners during the Triassic?

10. Describe the typical Triassic mammal.

11. Who was Roy Chapman Andrews? What did he contribute to science?

12. How did small Triassic mammals survive?

13. What ended the “Age of the Dinosaurs”?

14. After post KT ecosystem recovery, what happen to the mammals?

15. What mammalian event occurred about 35 mya?

16. What mammalian event occurred about 6-7 mya?

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Extinctions Part 1
Video

1 What % of species has gone extinct?

95-99%
2 What changes may bring about extinction?
New predators, mountain building, plate tectonics; impactors; climate
change
3 What happen approximately 65 mya?
Asteroid impact  mass extinction

4 Over the most recent 500 million years how many mass extinctions have
occurred?
five

5 What ended the Permian? How do we know?

Mass extinction (asteroid?) No fossils in the sediments just above the
end of the Permian

6 What period followed the Permian?

Triassic

7 How is an ecosystem similar to a “house of cards”?

Each species props up other species

8 What type of animals survived the end of the Permian?

Reptiles and small mammals

9 Who were the clear winners during the Triassic?

dinosaurs
10 Describe the typical Triassic mammal.
Small, furtive, scavengers, nocturnal

11 Who was Roy Chapman Andrews? What did he contribute to science?

Paleontologist; wrote many popular books; discovered dinos in
Mongolia
12 How did small Triassic mammals survive?
They likely lived in nests underground and were nocturnal

13 What ended the “Age of the Dinosaurs”?

Asteroid impact

14 After post KT ecosystem recovery, what happen to the mammals?

They under went rapid evolution  adaptive radiation

15 What mammalian event occurred about 35 mya?

Evolution of primates
16. What mammalian event occurred about 6-7 mya?
16 Evolution of bipedalism