ATM 200 - Natural
Disasters
Ch M17 – The
Great Dyings
(Mass Extinctions)
Friday, 13
November 2015
Daily Announcements:
1) Exam #3 Review Class is Friday, Nov. 20, in LC-18 at 3:40 PM.
2) Exam #3 is Monday, Nov. 23. (Bring #2 pencils, pencil sharpener, eraser.)
3) Exam #3: Ch. 8, 12, 17, & M17 and lecture material (videos too!)
4) Complete the Geologic Timeline by Friday, Nov. 20.
5) You can visit your TA or me during our posted Office Hours to go over your
Exam #2 up until the date of Exam
#3. If
you did not mark your answers directly
on your exam paper,
then you must come see me.
Song #1: “The End of the World” by Carpenters
Song #2: “How Far We’ve
Come” by Matchbox Twenty
Text Source Today: Chapter M17 (p. 16-25)
(Continued: The “Big Five” in Geologic Time Order)
·
Greenhouse Extinction Notes
Template
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#4: End Triassic Extinction PDF DOC
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#5: End Cretaceous (K-T) Extinction Greenhouse Extinction
·
Living Fossils
·
Quaternary
Extinctions
(To purchase the DVD, click this link; to rewatch, click the link above.)
Study Guide Material (Stacey’s Guide) :
1) Describe the “greenhouse extinction” process.
2) Mass Extinction Key Facts: End Triassic, End Cretaceous (K-T)
3) What did the last three of
the “Big Five” mass extinctions have in common?
4) What is meant by “living fossils”? Give some examples.
5) What (or who) has likely been responsible for the Quaternary extinctions?
6) What is “The Last Extinction”?
7) †Where are the La Brea Tar Pits? What can be found there?
To be answered while
watching the DVD:
8) What is the “black mat” that geologist Allen West discovered in southern
Arizona, near the Mexican border? What was directly below this “black mat?”
9) What evidence is under “lock and key” in the basement Archives of the Arizona
State Museum?
10) What was the final conclusion as to what caused the “Last Extinction” of large-
bodied animals and the Clovis people that inhabited North America 12,900 years
ago? What is the latest “proof” to help solve the
mystery?