1 - Distribution
True-False
Dinosaurs have been found on all continents.

Dinosaur endemism (distinctive characteristics resulting from isolation) was at an all-time high during the late Triassic, when Pangea was still intact.

Fill in the Blank
True or False (Circle one) Many dinosaur genera live 4-8 million years.

2 - Extinction
True-False
Major or intermediate mass extinctions occurred at or near the ends of the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous periods.

The Alvarezes postulated that the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous was caused by an asteroid impact because of the anomalously high concentration of Iridium at the K-T boundary.
Because of the anomalously high concentration of Iridium at the K-T boundary, the Alvarezes postulated that the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous was caused by an asteroid impact.

Support for the idea of an asteroid impact comes from shocked quartz, microtektites, and soot at the K-T boundary.
Shocked quartz, microtektites, and soot at the K-T boundary supports the idea of an asteroid impact.

Plant productivity on land and in the oceans appears to have shut down completely at the K-T boundary.

Much of the evidence cited as support for an asteroid impact has been attributed to eruption of the Deccan Traps in India by C. B. Officer.

The authors of your book don't think much of the asteroid impact hypothesis.

Multiple Choice
The impact crater formed from the asteroid impact is thought to have been found _________________.
A. in Gubbio, Italy B. under the Deccan Traps in India
C. buried under the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, the Chicxulub Crater D. all of these E. none of these

Fill in the Blank
Give the name of a non-dinosaur group that went extinct abruptly at the K-T boundary: ______________ .

True or False (Circle one) The pollen record of Montana, North Dakota & Wyoming shows Cretaceous species going extinct precisely at the Iridium anomaly, followed by a fern pollen spike, followed by a return of flowering seed plants characteristic of the Paleocene.
True or False (Circle one) Acid rain might have resulted from the impact at Chicxulub because it was an area of evaporite deposition.
True or False (Circle one) Only dinosaurs went extinct at the K-T boundary.

 

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