7 Week 7: Dinosaur Extinction
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs
This week we will be looking at the extinction of the dinosaurs! But before we dive in, complete the Dinosaur Extinction pre-quiz.
Dinosaur Doom
The first thing I would like you to do is to complete the Dinosaur Doom activity on Infiniscope. This activity is a virtual field trip where you will examine the sedimentary record above and below the K/T extinction event. I think you will all gain a lot from this exercise (I know I did!). This activity took me about 2 hours to work my way through. This exercise does take a lot of bandwidth, so if you run into issues, let me know. I do know that there is an option to watch YouTube videos outside of the exercise (which seems to run a bit faster). You will be completing the questions. For your convenience, I included all these questions on the Notes with Gaps for Week 7.
So, what was it like during the actual impact?
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Video 2 of 2:
Don’t Forget . . .
Look Here!
- Week 7a Quiz
- Dino Doom- Dinosaur Doom activity on Infiniscope.
- Week 7b Quiz
Extra Material
In my lectures this week, we discussed mass extinction and I mentioned the largest mass extinction event in the earth’s history (the Permo-Triassic). While looking for interesting and engaging videos for the class I ran into this video on CuriosityStream. Since you might have access I thought it would be worth sharing: How long does it take to recover from mass extinctions?
Note: This is an OPTIONAL activity.