Pleistocene - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

BIO 182 ASU EXAM WITH GUARANTEED CORRECT ANSWERS What is extinction? - correct answersThe loss or death of a species What is mass extinction? - correct answersA decline in biodiversity greater than the background extinction rate What is background extinction? - correct answersBackground extinction occurs when certain populations are reduced to zero because of normal environment change, emerging disease, predation pressure, or competition with another species How are mass extinctions ...

potential cannibalism - ️️Cutmarks found on fossilized hominin bones from the middle Pleistocene of Bodo, Ethiopia are often used as evidence of what? relatively small cranial capacity compared to other Homo species. - ️️One of the most surprising discoveries in the field of paleoanthropology is the species Homo floresiensis. This species is characterized by what? True - ️️True or false? Neandertals took care of the old and disabled. Homo erectus - ️️Sinanthropus pekinen...

WIS 2552 Topics 1-6/ Exam Review Questions & Answers, rated A+ The ___ era is broken down into Epochs - Cenozoic The bony fish evolved in the ___ period of the Paleozoic - Ordovician Some of Pasteur's sterile water flasks are still on display today - True Conifers evolved in the ___ - Permian Bacteria like DNA is found in the ___ of eukaryotes - Mitochondria Pasteur did an experiment to show that there was no ___ - Spontaneous generation Pigment molecules are found in the ___ - Chlorop...

What is extinction? - The loss or death of a species What is mass extinction? - A decline in biodiversity greater than the background extinction rate What is background extinction? - Background extinction occurs when certain populations are reduced to zero because of normal environment change, emerging disease, predation pressure, or competition with another species How are mass extinctions detected and how many have been detected? - They're detected geologically, and there have been 5...

Quarternary Ice Age Answer - Most recent ice age that started 2.6 million years ago with two epochs (Pleistocene and Holocene) Loch Lomond Stadial Answer - Last glacial advance in the UK 12,000-10,000 years ago in Scottish Highlands caused by Gulf Stream cut off by Lake Agassiz Little Ice Age Answer - Between when average temperatures were 1-2C cooler, resulting in glaciers re-advancing and abandoned settlements in Iceland Eccentricity Cycle Answer - Change in Earth's orbit fr...

FW 104 CSU EXAM 2 Questions With Verified And Updated Answers. Pleistocene Overkill Hypothesis - answerStates that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna at the close of the Pleistocene, approximately 10,000 years ago, from overhunting as human populations expanded at that time. Market Hunting Era (Era of Exploitation) - answer: Myth of superabundance; dark time for wildlife, new Americans claimed the right and duty to tame the land, loss of Passenger pigeons an...

ASM 246 Arizona State University -ASM 246 Weeks 6-7, ASM 246 Weeks 4-5 with correct answerspotential cannibalism - correct answer Cutmarks found on fossilized hominin bones from the middle Pleistocene of Bodo, Ethiopia are often used as evidence of what? relatively small cranial capacity compared to other Homo species. - correct answer One of the most surprising discoveries in the field of paleoanthropology is the species Homo floresiensis. This species is characterized by what? True - cor...

The mass of ice that flows under its own weight and forms when snowfall exceeds snow melt over long periods of time. Occupies ~11% of Earth's land area today. - Glacier 1. Powerful agent of geomorphic change. 2. Source of freshwater - ~77% of all freshwater are locked in glaciers. 3. Release nutrients locked up in rocks. 4. Contributes to change in sea level. - Environmental significance of glaciers Related to water volume and ice volume. - Eustatic sea-level Related to land 'posit...

WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions and answers. VERIFIED/ The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two cells. - - mutualistic The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were engulfed by ____. - -larger prokaryotic cells The first hominids appeared at the end of the ____. - -Tertiary The first fungi evolved in the ____. - -Ordovician Francisco Redi did an experiment to show that meat did not ...

WIS2552 Exam 1 (Topics 1-8, Global Patterns in Biodiversity) Questions With Verified Answers The endosymbiosis theory argues that a ____ relationship was established between two cells. - answermutualistic The endosymbiosis theory argues that small prokaryotic cells were engulfed by ____. - answerlarger prokaryotic cells The first hominids appeared at the end of the ____. - answerTertiary The first fungi evolved in the ____. - answerOrdovician Francisco Redi did an experiment to show tha...