The Era, Periods, and Epochs:

Compare and Contrast: 3 different aproximate year dates.


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Climate and Weather:

The climate was hot and dry and at the beginning of the Jurassic. The climate was warm. Towards the middle the climate became more subtropical. By the end of the Jurassic there was less seasonality than we have now. In other words it had warm tropical greenhouse conditions world-wide.

Pangaea: The Movement of the Plates-


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Plants and Animals:

Early mammals were developing and diversifying in the Jurassic. Some Jurassic period mammals included Morganucodontids (like Morganucodon and Megazostrodon), Haramiyids (like Haramiya), Docodonts (like Docodon), multiberculates, symmetrodonts, pantotheres, and a recently-found, mouse-sized Middle Jurassic mammal (a ( Read more... )

Answers:

1. B

2. D

3. C

4. B

5. A & B

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1. What Era was the Jurassic Period found in?

a. Cenozoic Era

b. Mesozoic Era

c. Paleozoic Era

d. Precambrian and Cryptozoic Era

2.  What is one of the names of the ( Read more... )

Climate and Weather:

The climate was hot and dry and at the beginning of the Jurassic. The climate was warm. Towards the middle the climate became more subtropical. By the end of the Jurassic there was less seasonality than we have now. In other words it had warm tropical greenhouse conditions world-wide.

Pangaea: The Movement of the Plates-


( Read more... )

Plants and Animals:

Early mammals were developing and diversifying in the Jurassic. Some Jurassic period mammals included Morganucodontids (like Morganucodon and Megazostrodon), Haramiyids (like Haramiya), Docodonts (like Docodon), multiberculates, symmetrodonts, pantotheres, and a recently-found, mouse-sized Middle Jurassic mammal (a ( Read more... )

The Era, Periods, and Epochs:

Compare and Contrast: 3 different aproximate year dates.


( Read more... )