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The Sixth Extinction
What range characterizes a low pH
What was the rare Element that Luis researched?
The Sixth Extinction
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What was the rare Element that Luis researched?
Radium
Platinum
Uranium
Iridium
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What range characterizes a low pH
10-8.0
6.6 - 7.2
7.8- 7.5
7.5 - 7.0
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How Long did the Permian Extinction Last
500,000 years
870,000
200,000 years
250,000 years
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What caused a huge release of CO2 gas into the ocean
Deep Sea Vents
Hot Geysers
Volcanic Lava
Volcanic Vents
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CO2 + H2O ⇋ H2CO3 ⇋ H+ + HCO3-What does this equation mean for the ocean
Crash Of Ecosystem
All of the above
Higher extinction Rates
Ocean Acidification
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What effect does this diagram represent
Signor Lipps Effect
Jaanuson Effect
THe Anthropocene Effect
Ocean Acidification Effect
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What is “Preservation potential”
The odds that an individual obtains an evolutionary advantage
The odds that an individual gets Fossilized
The odds that an individual survives
The odds that an individual goes extinct
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What animal might take advantage of the current extinction
Marine animals
Mice
Worms
Rats
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The Permian extinction (252 MYA) started with a huge release of Nitrogen
True
False
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Mass extinctions take place every.......
26 Million Years
36 Million Years
20 Million years
45 Million years
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Fern Spike is when ferns are replaced by other plants during a disaster
False
True
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Who coined the Term Anthropocene
Walter Alvarez
Jan Zalasiewicz
Luis Alvarez
Paul Crutzen
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We are currently living in what epoch?
Mesozoic
Anthropocene
Anthropology
Ammonites
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What are the three chapters of Life in order?
Paleozoic, Cenozoic, Mesozoic
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
Cenozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic,
Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Cenozoic
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Which was the first of the Mass extinction events to occur
Late Devonian
Ordovician-Silurian
Permian-Triassic
Triassic-Jurassic
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65 Million years ago a asteroid 6 miles wide collided with the earth
False
True
