Statistics for EOSC - Mass Extinctions

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This quiz has been taken 11 times
The average score is 32 of 86

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Extinction 2	Late Devonian	100%
Extinction 1	Late Ordovician	100%
When	360 ma	60%
How Much	50%	60%
How Much	60-70%	60%
How Much	70-80%	60%
Extinction 3	End Permian	60%
Extinction 4	End Triassic	60%
Why	ice age	60%
Why	no oxygen	60%
so there was ...	no oxygen	60%
AKA	the great dying	60%
When	201 ma	40%
When	251 ma	40%
for ...	2 ma	40%
When	450 ma	40%
	60% of plants	40%
When	66 ma	40%
How Much	75%	40%
specifically	80-90% marine	40%
How Much	90-96%	40%
called the ...	alverez hypothesis	40%
	ammonites	40%
Why	asteroid impact	40%
	CAMP	40%
this would be located in the ...	chicxulub impact crater	40%
and so ...	clathrates melted	40%
which released ...	co2 and so2	40%
	coal	40%
Index Fossil	conodonts	40%
so...	dinosaurs	40%
After	dinosaurs take over	40%
so it was ...	dry	40%
	ecological space	40%
Extinction 5	End Cretaceous	40%
	fern spores	40%
which indicated there were ...	forest fires	40%
	gas	40%
and released ...	ghgs	40%
	hibernating	40%
what helped species survive?	hiding	40%
maybe there was a ...	impact	40%
maybe there were ...	impacts	40%
called an ...	impact winter	40%
this is supported by the ...	iridium anomaly	40%
AKA	K/Pg extinction event	40%
	lethal blasts	40%
which species could do that?	mammals	40%
	ocean stagnation	40%
and set fire to ...	oil	40%
Who	over half of animals	40%
	pangaea	40%
which...	release methane	40%
	shattered glass	40%
	shocked quartz	40%
	siberian traps erupt	40%
there were also ...	soot	40%
	suevite	40%
and so ...	temperatures increased	40%
After	triassic coal gap	40%
	tsunami deposits	40%
Why	unclear	40%
this would have caused ...	vaporization	40%
would have resulted in ...	1% surface light	20%
plant diversity recovered by:	230 ma	20%
	broken ear drums	20%
what else happened?	deccan traps erupted	20%
which ...	devastated primary producers	20%
	dust	20%
yucatan peninsula had ...	evaporites	20%
	fire	20%
	food chain collapses	20%
1	freezing temperatures	20%
like ...	gypsum	20%
	half of plants	20%
because ...	limestones were vaporized	20%
	no photosynthesis	20%
like ...	phytoplankton	20%
Why	sea level fall	20%
and then lead to ...	sulphuric acid rain	20%
	tektite rain	20%
which had ...	tektites	20%
after 1 ...	temperatures rose	20%
	disrupted rainfall	0%
which lead to ...	so2 in the atmosphere	0%
what doubled?	volcanic activity	0%