Unit 10 Part 4 Mesozoic Era

What was the dominant species in the Mesozoic Era?

• Birds

• Mammals

• Dinosaurs

• Flowering Plants

What groups of animals first appeared during the Mesozoic Era?

• Shell fish

• Mammals

• Boney Fish

• Jellyfish

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Why did plant-eating dinosaurs need a larger digestive tract?

• for protection

• to mover quicker

• so they could be larger

• to digest the plants that they ate

What was the dominant plant during the Mesozoic Era?

• Angiosperms

• Gymnosperms

• Flowering Plants

• Ferns

What was the mountain building event called that fromed the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains?

• Farallon Orogeny

• Cordilleran Orogeny

• American Orogeny

• Nevada Orogeny

What is it called when one tectonic plate descends under another?

• Reduction

• Subduction

• Disduction

• Superduction

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What are the three periods of the Mesozoic Era from oldest to youngest?

• Jurassic, Cretaceous, Triassic

• Triassic, Cretaceous, Jurassic

• Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic

• Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous

How many year age did the Mesozoic Era end?

• 100 mya

• 25 mya

• 65 mya

• 252 mya

In the Cretaceous Period shallow seas invaded much of the western North America creating great swamps.

• True

• False

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What was one of the major paleogeolography events of the Mesozoic Era?

• Break up of Pangea

• Coming together of Pangea

• Forming of Rodinia

• Forming of Lorentia

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