Exam 18: Life History

The evolution of the horse involved major changes from Hyracotherium,including increases in size and development of one toe.

What were pterosaurs? What adaptations did they have for their unique ability?

Describe the evolution of amphibians in the Paleozoic.

What are prokaryotic organisms?

Briefly describe the "out of Africa" and "multiregional" views to describe the transition from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens.

What are stromatolites,and why are they important in Earth history?

What is an invertebrate?

Briefly state some of the problems that plants had to overcome as they adapted to land and how they did that.

The sail-like fin on the pelycosaur may have served as all but which of the following?

Carboniferous age reefs differed from those of the Devonian in that they were much more massive than the older reef structures.

Scientists know that birds began to evolve prior to the Cretaceous,due to the fossil known as ____________________.

What was the importance of the therapsids?

By the end of the Permian,small mammal-like reptiles called the ____________________ evolved from the pelycosaur.

Gymnosperms are:

The first jawed fish were the:

Homo sapiens clearly evolved from ____________________.

The Carboniferous flora in coal-forming swamps was dominated by ____________________ plants.

The dominant type of flora in non-swampy areas of the Late Paleozoic was ____________________.

The amalgamation of Pangaea may have played an important role in the Permian extinction because the shallow marine environment was greatly reduced.

What was the large size of many Pleistocene mammal species due to?