Exam 23: Cenozoic Earth and Life History

The Cascade Mountain Range includes

The sea level (decreased/increased)____________________ (amount)____________________ during the maximum glacial coverage of the Pleistocene.

Prosimians are

Angiosperms constitute more than 90% of all land plants.

The sea that covered the Gulf Coastal Plain in the Early Tertiary was the ____________________ sea.

During the Neanderthal era,what was climate characterized by?

What are some indications that the Alpine orogenic belt is still active?

Because of the large amount of weight in a glacial mass,the crust of Earth may ____.

Homo sapiens clearly evolved from ____________________.

The orogenic event of the North American Cordillera that began in the Late Cretaceous and extended into the Cenozoic is the ____ orogeny.

Which of the following cephalopods did not survive the Cretaceous extinction?

Name,from oldest to youngest,the three groupings into which the Cenozoic is divided.

The Himalayas today are ____.

All of the following except which are features of primates?

After the mass extinction at the end of the Mesozoic Era,marine invertebrates diversified.

The Cenozoic Era is divided into the

How and when did the land that is the present state of Florida originate?

There is evidence to suggest that the world's global cooling trend began in the Eocene and continued through the Pleistocene.

Formation of basin and range mountains is a result of ____.

The major difference between modern humans and Neanderthals is ____________________.