Post on 20-Dec-2015
Title: Prehistoric PredationCategory: GeologySubcategory: Difficulty: Unknown
Year 2004 Bowl: Shore Bowl
Author: C. Grant Law
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Email law@marine.rutgers.edu
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QUESTIONRound: Time: 2 minutes Standard/Category: Geology
QUESTION:Predators have been roaming the oceans for a long time . . .
1) Draw lines between the best predator/prey pairs, making sure they pass through the geological period in which the predation would have occurred. (3 points for each correct pair and period, 2 points for a correct pair with an incorrect period)
2) Give a taxonomic identification more specific than phylum for each organism. Common names are acceptable. (I point for each identification)
Silurian
Devonian
Cambrian
Cretaceous
PREDATORS
PREY
ANSWERRound: Time: 2 minutes Standard/Category: Category
QUESTION/ANSWERS:
Silurian
Devonian
Cambrian
Cretaceous
Ammonoid, or ammonite
Arthrodire
Eurypterid, or water-scorpion
AnomalocarisActinopterygian,
or teleost
Marrella
Trilobite
Elasmobranch, or shark
1) 3 points for each correct predator/prey pair connected through the appropriate period. 2 points for each correct predator/prey pair passing through an incorrect period.
2) 1 point for each correctly identified animal.
Stokes, WL, 1973, Essentials of Earth History. Prentice-Hall Inc. (Figs. 11.3, 11.24, 20.9)Lane, NG, 1992, Life of the Past. MacMillan Publishing Co. (Fig. 12.14)Romer, AS, 1941, Man and the Vertebrates, The University of Chicago Press (p.21)Briggs, DEG et al. 1994, The Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Smithsonian Institution Press (pp. 201, 143)