Exam 19: The Late Cenozoic World Before the Holocene

__________, an extinct species that was similar to, but has been shown to be separate from, our own species, branched from some common ancestor more than __________ years ago.

Heinrich layers in the sedimentary record show us that, during each 10,000- to 15,000- thousand-year cooling cycle over the past 80,000 years,

A Neogene mammal predator group that expanded successfully because of the spread of grasslands was the

During the most recent glacial maximum, the latitude of Paris today was a __________, and during the preceding glacial minimum, it was a __________.

The earliest known species in the genus Homo is approximately __________ years old, whereas Homo sapiens appears in the fossil record approximately __________ years ago.

The rate of southwestward movement of the North American plate over the Yellowstone hot spot is about __________ km per 1 million years.

A group that was poorly represented before Neogene, whose radiation benefited from the seed production of newly developed herbs, is called

The carnivorous whales appeared during

Which occurred first?

The Mediterranean evaporated almost completely near the end of

Neogene clastic wedge deposits of the Himalaya are called the

The Neogene volcanic arc associated with subduction of the Pacific plate is called the

The genus __________ originated slightly before 4 million years ago and much later gave rise to our genus, Homo.

Modern ice age glacial scouring resulted in

The modern ice age began during

The most recent glacial minimum, in which we live today, began about __________ years ago, and the previous glacial maximum was called __________.

The key late Neogene event that brought about widespread changes in salinity and temperature of ocean waters-and thus the oceanic conveyor belt-was

The underlying cause of extinction of large herbivores near the end of Miocene was

Neogene radiations of grasses and herbs ultimately stimulated radiation of the group of predators called

Early during the Neogene ice age, glacial oscillations corresponded to the __________ cycle of Earth's axis of rotation, but beginning about 850,000 years ago, glacial oscillations began to follow a new periodicity related to the __________ cycle.