Transcript Mass Extinction Notes

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