Final Exam Vocab Review

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Geologic processes in the past explained by current processes.

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Uniformitarianism

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Earth's history includes short, sudden, worldwide events causing large disruptions.

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Catastrophism

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Causes of mass extinctions?

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all of these

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Dying out of many species on Earth in a short time

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mass extinction

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First birds appeared during Mesozoic & Jurassic.

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Mesozoic and Jurassic

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Second broadest geologic time category, Cenozoic is one.

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era

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Parts of the geologic time scale from broadest to narrowest:

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eon, era, period, epoch

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Age of reptiles:

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Mesozoic

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Era with most complex organisms?

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Cenozoic

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Most recent Era?

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Cenozoic