Question: What type of continental behavior was unique to the Proterozoic?
Answer: rapid continental accretion

Question: What is the name for the large super continent that broke apart 750 million years ago?
Answer: Rodinia

Question: During what period was the Paleozoic era?
Answer: 541 to 252 million years ago

Question: How many periods of geology are within the Paleozoic era?
Answer: six

Question: The Permian is an example of what?
Answer: geologic periods

Question: After what continental event did the Paleozoic begin?
Answer: breakup of a supercontinent called Pannotia

Question: What continent was formed at the end of the Paleozoic?
Answer: Pangaea

Question: At what rough time did the Cambrian era start?
Answer: 541.0 ± 1.0 Ma.

Question: What were the continents of the Cambrian area believed to have formerly been a part of?
Answer: Pannotia

Question: What continent moved to the southern-most part of the earth in the Cambrian era?
Answer: Gondwana

Question: What continent ranged over the majority of the southern hemisphere of earth in the Cambrian?
Answer: Panthalassa

Question: Baltica and Sibera are examples of what thing, during the Cambrian era?
Answer: independent continents

Question: How long ago did the Ordovician period begin?
Answer: 485.4 ± 1.9 Ma.

Question: Which event precipitated the Ordovician period?
Answer: the Cambrian-Ordovician extinction

Question: What was the name of the large southernmost continent during the Ordovician?
Answer: Gondwana

Question: Which ocean decreased in size with the movement of Baltica in the Ordovician?
Answer: Iapetus Ocean

Question: What continent fractured off Gondwana in the direction of Laurentia?
Answer: Avalonia

Question: What type of climate was normal in the Ordovician period?
Answer: stable greenhouse conditions

Question: What ice age signaled the end of the normal climate in the Ordovician period?
Answer: the Hirnantian faunal stage

Question: Oxygen from what kind of fossil were used to date the Hirnantian faunal stage?
Answer: brachiopods

Question: How many years is the Hirnantian faunal stage believed to have lasted?
Answer: 0.5 to 1.5 million years

Question: What started to develop on Gondwana as it moved over the south pole?
Answer: ice caps

Question: When was the Silurian period believed to have begun?
Answer: 443.8 ± 1.5 Ma.

Question: Compared to the Ordovician glaciation, how big were the ice caps on Gondwana during the Silurian?
Answer: less extensive

Question: What did the melting of ice on Gondwana add to?
Answer: a rise in sea levels

Question: Which supercontinent formed during the Silurian?
Answer: Euramerica

Question: Which ocean ranged the majority of the northern hemisphere in the Silurian period?
Answer: Panthalassa

Question: During what time period was the Devonian era?
Answer: 419 to 359 Ma.

Question: Which continent was formed from the meeting of Laurentia and Baltica?
Answer: Euramerica (or Laurussia)

Question: Which sedimentary beds were created in the dry areas of Euramerica in the Devonian period?
Answer: Old Red Sandstone

Question: What was the largest ocean referred to that existed in the Devonian period?
Answer: Panthalassa

Question: Which mountains associated with the USA were formed near the equator on  Pangaea during the Devonian?
Answer: the northern Appalachian Mountains

Question: What occurred to the level of the sea when the Devonian period was finished?
Answer: A global drop

Question: During which period were epicontinental seas created?
Answer: Carboniferous

Question: What was on the land at 30 degrees latitude north in the carboniferous period?
Answer: lush coal swamps

Question: What was the result in the decline in sea level in the middle of the Carboniferous period?
Answer: a major marine extinction

Question: The Pennsylvania period is separated by the drop in Carboniferous era sea levels from what other period?
Answer: Mississippian Period

Question: What geologic events took place when Pangea combined during the Carboniferous?
Answer: mountain building

Question: What was the continent that came to be North America and Europe called during the Carboniferous?
Answer: Laurussia

Question: What was the effect of Laurussia impacting Gondwana in North America?
Answer: the Alleghenian orogeny

Question: The mountains forming to the southwest of the Appalachians in the Carboniferous are known as what?
Answer: the Ouachita Mountains

Question: Which two large oceans existed during the Carboniferous period?
Answer: the Panthalassa and Paleo-Tethys

Question: What supercontinent prevailed during the Permian era?
Answer: Pangaea

Question: What was the largest ocean during the Permian called?
Answer: Panthalassa

Question: There was an ocean between Gondwana and Asia in the Permian, what was it?
Answer: Paleo-Tethys Ocean

Question: The moving of which continent contributed to the decrease in size of the Paleo-Tethys?
Answer: Cimmeria

Question: During which period was the Tehtys Ocean dominant?
Answer: the Mesozoic Era

Question: Which ocean name is translated to mean "all the sea?"
Answer: Panthalassa

Question: What process obscures information aboutt he ocean during the Triassic period from inspection?
Answer: subduction of oceanic plates

Question: What was occurring to Pangaea in the late Triassic?
Answer: Pangaea was rifting

Question: Which sediements in the US are an indication of the break up of Pangaea?
Answer: Newark Supergroup

Question: What type of terrestrial animals are found from the Triassic period?
Answer: terrestrial vertebrates

Question: During what years was the Jurassic period?
Answer: 201.3 ± 0.2 to 145.0 Ma.

Question: Which supercontinent came apart in the Jurassic period?
Answer: Pangaea

Question: The Gulf of Mexico formed in the rift between North America and what other land mass?
Answer: Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula

Question: At what point did the South Atlantic ocean begin to open?
Answer: Cretaceous Period

Question: Which late Jurassic cultural sites are famous in Europe?
Answer: lagerstätten of Holzmaden and Solnhofen

Question: The current continents were formerly known as what continent?
Answer: Pangaea

Question: Which oregenies followed the Nevadan in the Cretaceous?
Answer: Sevier and Laramide

Question: South America was formerly which continent?
Answer: Gondwana

Question: The rifting in the Cretaceous had what result on the oceans?
Answer: raising eustatic sea levels

Question: Antarctica was a part of what supercontinent?
Answer: Gondwana

Question: During the height of the Cretaceous transgression how much of the earths land mass was under water?
Answer: one-third

Question: What type of rock was the Cretaceous notable for forming the most amount of?
Answer: Phanerozoic

Question: The Cretaceous is a part of which geologic era?
Answer: Phanerozoic

Question: Where can one find the Smoky Hill Chalk Member?
Answer: North America

Question: Where are the Deccan Traps?
Answer: India

Question: How many years long was the Cenozoic Era?
Answer: 66 million years

Question: Which extinction marked the beginning of the Cenozoic Era?
Answer: Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

Question: What geologic period are we in currently?
Answer: Cenozoic Era

Question: At the end of which era had the continents taken roughly their current shape?
Answer: Mesozoic

Question: The collision of the Indian sub continent and the Asian plate created which mountain range?
Answer: the Himalayas

Question: How many continents did Laurasia break into?
Answer: three

Question: In the Paleocene period Greenland was joined to which continent?
Answer: North America

Question: What mountain chain in the Cretaceous was lifted as a result of the Laramide oregeny?
Answer: the Rocky Mountains

Question: In which period did North and South america join?
Answer: Neogene

Question: Which ocean was closed when Africa moved northward during the Paleocene?
Answer: Tethys