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Mo11-L7: Vocabulary Review
Direction: On the line before each statement, write T if the statement is true or F if the statement is
false.
1. Africa pushed into Europe and formed the Alps during the Cenozoic era.
2. Earth’s climate began to cool during the Cenozoic era.
3. During the Pleistocene epoch, glaciers extended into North America.
4. Water contained in glaciers made Earth’s oceans rise.
5. Inland seas f ooded much of North America during the Cenozoic era.
6. Mega-mammals were large mammals that evolved during the Cenozoic era.
7. The saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth are two examples of mega-mammals.
8. A land bridge once connected Australia with Antarctica.
9. The earliest fossil remains of humans are almost 6 million years old.
10. The Pleistocene extinction occurred when a meteorite struck Earth.
Mo11-L7: Key Concept Organizer
Direction: On the line before each statement, write T if the statement is true or F if the statement is
false.
1. Animals that evolved in Europe, Asia, North America, and South America were
different from ones that lived in Australia.
2. The most common type of animal living in Australia today are primates.
3. Mammals that carry their young on their backs are called marsupials.
4. A land bridge once existed between South America and Antarctica and between
Antarctica and Australia.
5. Australia gradually moved away from Antarctica.
6. Marsupials might have originated somewhere other than Australia.
7. Animals might have used a land bridge to migrate from Africa to Australia.
8. Because ancestor marsupials became geographically isolated, they evolved into
the type of marsupials that are in Australia today
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