Mass Extictions - Central Square School District
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Question 1
List the order the rocks came in
First
Second
Third
Forth
Fifth
Sixth
Question 2
What is the oldest group here?
Question 3
What geologic period did the
placoderm fish mostly live?
Question 4
What minerals are in andesite?
Answers
1.) List the order the rocks came in
4, 5, 2, 6, 1, 3
2.) What is the oldest group here?
Borden group
3.) What geologic period did the
placoderm fish mostly live?
Devonian
4.) What minerals are in andesite?
Feldspar, Biotite, Amphibole
Vocab
Time scale
Mass extinction
Evolution
Geologic Time Scale
Earth was formed 4.6 BYA
(billion Years Ago)
How do we know this?
How old is the oldest rock
on Earth?
(look at your ESRT!)
Geologic timeline
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Mass Extinctions
These are events where most or a lot
of living things on Earth were killed.
To go Extinct means to have a whole
species die and nothing is left living
from that species.
Causes of mass extinctions
Meteor impacts
Global Warming
Oxygen levels
Sea level change
Storms
Volcanic eruptions
Possible many more things… can
you think of something?
5 Major mass extinctions
Cretaceous (65mya)
62% loss of species caused by impact and flood basalts
Triassic (210mya)
65% loss of species caused by impact and flood basalt.
Permian (250mya)
90% loss of species caused by impact, flood basalts, &
global warming.
Devonian (365mya)
72% loss of species caused by impact.
Ordovician (445mya)
65% loss of species caused by ice age and sea level
fall (still debated)
Historic Mass Extinctions
One famous one is the K-T extinction.
Cretaceous and Tertiary periods
Where the dinosaurs died.
Now?? Humans?
Global Warming
Sea level rise
Changing CO2 level
Loss of resources
Evolution
What is this?
The response to environmental changes an
organism that allows it to survive.
Example:
?Allergies
Birds beaks
Diseases
Goose bumps
Wisdom teeth
Coccyx (tail bone)
Appendix
Causes
Environmental factors:
Plate tectonics
Atmospheric changes
Physical needs
Weak links die off..
All occur over long time frames!
Evidence
Birds beaks
Whales have a hip bone!?
Ancient giraffes had shorts necks
Arms of different animals have
same parts.