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Geology 1404
TCC South Gology 1404 Test 3: Chapter 10, 11, 12, 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first major transgression onto the North American continent is recorded int eh rocks of the ___ Sequence | Sauk |
| Prior to the transgression of epeiric seas in the Middle Cambrian, the North American craton was above sea level and experience extensive ___ and ___ | weathering, erosion |
| By the late Cambrian most of North America was covered by epeiric seas with the exception of the Canadian Shield and a highland know as the ___ ___ | Transcontinental Arch |
| During the Sauk transgression, the sedimentary facies deposit, from the shoreline toward the ocean, were ___, ___, and ___ | sandstone, shale, and limestone |
| The Taconic orogeny formed in response to ___ of the Iapetus ocean and ___ of the Iapetus plate | widening, subduction |
| The ___ orogeny in Europe is a mirror image of the Taconic and Acadian orogenies in North America | Caledonian |
| The six major continents at the beginning of the Paleozoic were: ___, ___ ,___ ,___, ___, ___. | Laurentia, Baltica, Siberia, Kazahkstania, China, and Gondwana |
| Widespread, shallow seas that transgress over a craton are called ___ ___ | epeiric seas |
| An elongated area of mountain building is referred to as a ___ ___ | mobile belt |
| The Absaroka sequence includes rocks from uppermost ___ in age through Lower ___ in age. | Pennsylvanian, Jurassic |
| The Ellesmere orogeny took place on the ___ margin of Laurentia | northern |
| The Ancestra Rockies were most prominent in the ___ Period of the Paleozoic | Pennsylvanian |
| The clastic wedges associated with the Acadian-Caledonian orogeny are the ___ Delta in North American, and the ___ ___ ___ in Europe. | Catskill; old red sandstone |
| Cyclothems' transgressive sedimentation may be related to the ___ of the Gondwana ice sheets | melting |
| Mazon Creek fossils are mostly found inside ___ ___. | river mud |
| The aqueous environment during the formation of the Kaskaskian black shale was ___ in its oxygen content. | depleted |
| The latter part of the Mississippian Period is cahracterized by widespread ___ ___ deposition | detrital sediment |
| Alternating marine and nonmarine strata with interbedded coal are termed ___ | cyclothems |
| The presence of an exoskeleton enables organisms to adapt to shallow water by providing protection from ___ ___ | ultraviolet light |
| Organisms that live in the marine ecosystem above the sea floor are called ___ | Pelagic |
| Pelagic organisms can be divided into floateds, called ___, and swimmers, called ___ | plankton, nekton |
| Give 3 examples of phytoplankton: ___, ___ ,___ | diatoms, algae, dinoflagellates |
| Give 3 examples of zooplankton: ___, ___, ___ | formanifera, radiolarians, jellyfish |
| Organisms that live on the sea floor are called ___; those that move are ___, while those that remain stationary are __ | Benthic, mobile, sessile |
| Benthic plants that live on the seafloor are called ___ and benthic animals that live on the seafloor are called ___ | epiflora, epifauna |
| Benthic organisms that move through or live in the sediment are called ___ | infauna |
| ___ were benthic, mobile animals that crawled or swam along the seafloor, but whose diversity was reduced by a mass extinction at the end of the Cambrian | Trilobites |
| The ___ ___ provides paleontologists with a unique look at the soft-bodied organisms that thrived in the Middel Cambrian | Burgess Shale |
| The oldest amphibian fossils are found in rocks of the ___ ___ | Devonian Period |
| The ___ plant group flourished during the Permian because it was well suited to warmer and drier climates | conifer |
| Chordates are animals that, during at least part of their life cycles, possess a dorsal hollow nerve chord, a ___, and ____ ___ | notochord, gill slits |
| The evolution of the ___ ___ set the stage for animals to live entirely on the land | amniotic egg |
| By the end of the Permian, mammal-like reptiles evolved from the pelycosaur; they were called the ___ | therapsids |
| In an amniote egg, the embryo is surrounded by the ___ ___ and provided with a ___ ___ and a ___ | amniotic cavity, yolk sac, allantois |
| The fin-back reptiles or ___ became extinct in the ___ | Palycosaurus, Permian |
| Heteosporous plants produce two sizes of ___ | cones |
| ___ ___ plants dominated the Carboniferous flora in coal-forming swamps | seedless vascular |
| On dominant type of flora in non-swampy areas of the Late Paleozoic was the ___ trees | Cordaite |
| The two most important seedless vascular plants of the coal-forming swamps were ___ and ___ | lycopsids, shenopsids |
| The most famous plant that was abundant in Gondwana and provided evidence for continetnal drift was ___ | glossopteris |
| The ___ were a group of armored fish that were top predators in the Devonian seas | placoderms |
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