
Mass Extinctions
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Science
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6th - 8th Grade
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Hard
Joseph Anderson
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19 Slides • 7 Questions
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Multiple Choice
How old is the Earth?
4.6 billions years
2020 years
4 million years
400 million years.
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Multiple Choice
Dinosaurs became extinct
billions of years ago
65 millions years ago
2020, when Jurassic World came out and Chris Pratt was able to put an end to it once and for all
2-4 million years ago
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Multiple Choice
What is incorrect about shows such as the Flintstones?
Dinosaurs were friendly towards humans
Humans were friendly towards dinosaurs.
That dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. They did not.
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Multiple Choice
What triggered a chain of events that eventually cause the dinosaurs to become extinct?
Fires
Asteroid
Volcanoes
Starvation
All of the above
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Multiple Choice
How big was the asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago?
10-12 km (6 miles)
100 feet
50 meters
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It took the Earth over 4 billion years before the dinosaurs, to create enough food for them to eat well for 165 million years. The dinosaurs were eating way beyond the “carrying capacity” of their ecosystem. It was only a matter of time before they ran out of food.
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Multiple Choice
As if the dinosaurs didn't have enough problems already. what else was going on on Earth around the time the asteroid hit?
A great deal of tectonic activity causing numerous volcanic eruptions
The dinosaurs were running out of food, they had exceeded the carrying capacity of the Earth by eating too much.
All of the above
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Open Ended
The asteroid when it hit Earth created an ejecta cloud that blocked sunlight for several years. Why was this a problem for the dinosaurs?
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