Question: When was the Royal Northern College of Music formed?
Answer: 1972

Question: What did the Royal Manchester College of Music merge with?
Answer: the Northern College of Music

Question: What era was 250 million to 247 million years ago?
Answer: Early Triassic

Question: What geologic climate was found in the Early Triassic?
Answer: deserts

Question: What landmass was still unbroken in the Early Triassic?
Answer: Pangaea

Question: What percentage of extinction of species had recently happened??
Answer: 95%

Question: What species had evolved after  the extinction and would become the basic predator in the Triassic?
Answer: Temnospondyli

Question: What event produced further adaptations during  the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?
Answer: climatic changes

Question: When was the top of archosaur diversity?
Answer: Jurassic

Question: What species spread towards the poles during the Jurassic?
Answer: Angiosperms

Question: What species dominated many tree floras by the end of the Cretaceous period?
Answer: angiosperms

Question: What types of species are thought to still have been dominate until after the extinction?
Answer: cycad and ferns

Question: What event sets the boundary for the Triassic?
Answer: Permian–Triassic extinction

Question: How many terrestrial species died during the extinction?
Answer: 70%

Question: What is the largest extinction of species in Earth's history known as?
Answer: Great Dying

Question: What percentage of marine life died during the extinction?
Answer: 90% to 96%

Question: What is the possible cause of the upper Cretaceous extinction event ?
Answer: K–Pg) extinction

Question: What is the span of the Late Cretaceous period?
Answer: 100 million to 65 million years

Question: What weather trend ocured in the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods?
Answer: cooling

Question: What climate was restricted to the equatorial areas?
Answer: tropics

Question: What type of weather changes did areas outside of the tropics experience?
Answer: extreme seasonal changes

Question: What event ended the age of the dinosaur by causing a 75% extinction?
Answer: K-T Extinction

Question: What is uncertain about the Cretaceous?
Answer: climate

Question: What atmospheric gas caused temperatures levels to be 10 degrees higher than today?
Answer: carbon dioxide

Question: During the Cretaceous what climate was thought to be found in areas near the seas?
Answer: deserts

Question: What did large amounts of deposited un-decomposed organic matter later become?
Answer: black shale

Question: What was about equal across the planet?
Answer: temperatures

Question: What was the span of the Late Triassic?
Answer: 237 million to 200 million years

Question: Besides moderate precipitation, what weather conditions did the Late Triassic have?
Answer: heat spells

Question: When did the first dinosaurs evolve?
Answer: Triassic

Question: According to theory, what did climate change in the Late Triassic cause?
Answer: Triassic-Jurassic extinction

Question: What was the only archosaur to survive the fourth mass extinction?
Answer: crocodiles

Question: What is the span of the Early Cretaceous?
Answer: 145 million to 100 million years

Question: What event of the Early Cretaceous caused the extinction of several species?
Answer: expansion of seaways

Question: What species died out due to the expansion of coastal shallows?
Answer: Ichthyosaurs

Question: What species dominated the seas?
Answer: Mosasaurs

Question: What dinosaur spread to every continent?
Answer: Iguanodon

Question: What caused the sea to rise during the Jurassic?
Answer: increase in seafloor

Question: Rising seas and displaced waters caused what  element along the coasts?
Answer: flooded coastal areas

Question: Pangaea beginning to break apart created what new sea?
Answer: Tethys Sea

Question: What weather condition increased?
Answer: Temperatures

Question: As humidity increased what land area decreased?
Answer: deserts

Question: What is the span of years for the Early Jurassic?
Answer: 200 million years to 175 million

Question: Besides Ichthyosaurs and Ammonites, what was the other dominate species in the seas?
Answer: Plesiosaurs

Question: What was the highest order of species n land?
Answer: Dilophosaurus

Question: What other order evolved during the Jurassic?
Answer: true mammals

Question: What feature of the climate produced a more tropical world?
Answer: more humid

Question: At what time was tectonic formation mild?
Answer: Mesozoic

Question: Where did the basic geological changes of this period occur?
Answer: Arctic

Question: What supercontinent split to form two smaller continents?
Answer: Pangaea

Question: What was the northern continent split from Pangaea?
Answer: Laurasia

Question: What was Pangaea's southern continent called?
Answer: Gondwana

Question: What type of animals took longer to reestablish?
Answer: specialized animals

Question: How long after the Permian-Triassic extinction did animal recovery take to completion?
Answer: 30M years

Question: When did recovery of these diverse animals begin?
Answer: mid-Triassic

Question: What dominated animal life in the Triassic?
Answer: reptiles

Question: How many years after the extinction did animal recovery begin?
Answer: 4M to 6M

Question: At what point did the Mesozoic era begin?
Answer: Permian–Triassic extinction

Question: When did the Mesozoic end?
Answer: Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction

Question: What kind of geologic activity occurred during the Mesozoic?
Answer: tectonic

Question: Besides climate changes, what other important activity occurred during the Mesozoic?
Answer: evolutionary

Question: When mamals appeared they remained small until what period?
Answer: Cenozoic

Question: What is the span of years of the Middle Triassic?
Answer: 247 million to 237 million

Question: What continuing event began in the Middle Triassic?
Answer: breakup of Pangaea

Question: From what had the ecosystem had to recover?
Answer: the Great Dying

Question: During the breakup of Pangaea, what sea was created?
Answer: Tethys Sea

Question: What type of animal began to flourish and become increasingly large?
Answer: reptiles

Question: How many years did the Late Jurassic cover?
Answer: 163 million to 145 million

Question: What did the separation of Pangaea cause to become extinct?
Answer: sauropods and Ichthyosaurs

Question: What is the extinction caused by the splitting of Pangaea called?
Answer: Jurassic-Cretaceous extinction

Question: What caused the destruction of fern prairies and increasing shallows?
Answer: Sea levels rose

Question: What did the rise in sea levels open in the seaways? 
Answer: Atlantic sea

Question: What was the general rainfall in the Triassic?
Answer: dry

Question: What could have made temperatures more extreme?
Answer: Low sea levels

Question: Because of distance form the sea and wide variance in temperatures, what was the interior of Pangaea like?
Answer: desert

Question: What were there periods of during the Triassic?
Answer: increased rainfall

Question: What was the Carnian Pluvial event?
Answer: increased rainfall

Question: What was the dominant plant species of the Mesozoic?
Answer: gymnosperms

Question: What is an example of a gymnosperm?
Answer: conifers

Question: What are the dominate plant species on Earth now?
Answer: angiosperms

Question: When did the Ginkgo evolve?
Answer: Mesozoic

Question: What famous tree species is believed to have evolved during the Mesozoic?
Answer: Sequoia

Question: In what decade was digital telephony transmission made possible?
Answer: the 1980s

Question: What is the minimum bit rate for compressed video and audio transmission?
Answer: 128 kilobits/s

Question: What is an example of an early form of digital video and audio communication?
Answer: the Media space

Question: In what form did the first dedicated videoconferencing system appear as?
Answer: ISDN networks