the Himalaya mountains formed from _____________. Question 1 options: a continen

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the Himalaya mountains formed from _____________.

Question 1 options:

a continent-continent collision

continental rifting

a continental volcanic arc along a subduction zone

the convergence of two oceanic lithospheric plates

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Question 2 (2.5 points)

By the Oligocene epoch, the circum-Antarctica current __________, and the continent had become ___________ isolated.

Question 2 options:

did not flow, less

did not flow, more

flowed, less

flowed, more

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Question 3 (2.5 points)

The Laramide orogeny involved the subduction of the __________ plate under the western margin of North America, and the formation of the __________ mountains.

Question 3 options:

Farallon, Rocky

Farallon, Sierra Nevada

Pacific, Rocky

Pacific, Sierra Nevada

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Question 4 (2.5 points)

During the Cenozoic Era, monotremes, placentals, multituberculates, and marsiupials competed for resources and habitat, in the end this group would become dominant.

Question 4 options:

Marsiupials

Monotremes

Multituberculates

Placentals

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Question 5 (2.5 points)

The ungulates are __________, that _______ in a range of terrestrial and marine habitats.

Question 5 options:

carnivores, quickly radiated

carnivores, were decimated

hooved mammals, quickly radiated

hooved mammals, were decimated

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Question 6 (2.5 points)

The earliest primates were__________ and _________.

Question 6 options:

large, arboreal (tree-dwelling)

large, non-arboreal

small, arboreal

small-non-arboreal

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Question 7 (2.5 points)

Which of the following was NOT produced by Pleistocene glaciation?

Question 7 options:

Carbonate platforms

Hanging waterfalls

Spectacular peaks

U-shaped troughs

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Question 8 (2.5 points)

The "Great Faunal Interchange" involved the exchange of mammals between _________ and ______________, as a result of the formation of a narrow land bridge.

Question 8 options:

Australia, Antarctica

India, Eurasia

North America, South America

South America, Africa

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Question 9 (2.5 points)

The hominid fossil called "Lucy" belonged to genus _________, and was found in __________.

Question 9 options:

Australopithecus, Ethiopia

Australopithecus, South Africa

Homo, Ethiopia

Homo, South Africa

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Question 10 (2.5 points)

Which of the following hominids appeared last?

Question 10 options:

Australopithecines

Cro-Magnon man

Homo erectus

Neanderthals

a continent-continent collision

continental rifting

a continental volcanic arc along a subduction zone

the convergence of two oceanic lithospheric plates

Explanation / Answer

1) A continent-continent collision.

2) Flowed, more.

3) Farallon, Rocky.

4) Placentals.

5) Hooved mammals, were decimated.

6) Large, arboreal (tree-dwelling).

7) Spectacular peaks.

8) North America, South America.

9) Australopithecus, Ethiopia.

10) Cro-Magnon man.

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