Tethys Ocean - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

Fossils found on Hațeg Island, which was located in this body of water, helped Ferenc Nopcsa posit the theory of insular dwarfism, where island-bound organisms evolve to be smaller and smaller. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this ocean that existed during the Mezozoic Era between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia.

ANSWER: Tethys Ocean [accept Tethys Sea or Neo-Tethys]

[10e] The Tethys Ocean formed when this supercontinent began to break up 200 million years ago. Its name is Greek for “all Earth.”

ANSWER: Pangaea

[10m] Siberia joined with Pangaea at the boundary between this period and the Triassic. This final period of the Paleozoic Era ended with the Earth’s largest mass extinction and the eruption of the Siberian Traps.

ANSWER: Permian

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	14.17	92%	25%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%

Data


Cornell E	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
U of Rochester A	RIT A	10	10	10	30
Binghamton C	U of Rochester B	0	10	0	10
Appalachian State B	Tusculum	0	10	10	20
Appalachian State A	NC State	0	10	0	10
Duke B	UNC C	0	10	10	20
VCU	Virginia	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Purdue C	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Indiana	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Illinois D	Iowa A	0	10	10	20
Iowa B	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
ESF	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
Syracuse	Binghamton B	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	Cornell F	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia A	Auburn C	10	10	0	20
Emory Oxford	Belmont	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Furman	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech E	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Emory Oxford	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Auburn A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B (DII)	Bard A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Columbia A (UG)	Penn B (DII)	10	10	10	30
Fordham A	Princeton A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Maryland A (DII)	Penn A (DII)	10	10	10	30
Columbia J (DII)	NYU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Rowan A (DII)	Rutgers A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Rutgers B	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Michigan B (UG)	CWRU B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Miami A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Miami B (UG)	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Miami C (DII)	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	0	10	0	10
Michigan State B	West Virginia A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan D (UG)	Ohio State A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan State A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C (DII)	West Virginia B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Boise State	Alberta	0	10	0	10
Arizona State A	UW Pride	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Arizona State B	0	10	0	10
UW Wrath	UW Envy	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	UNC D	0	10	10	20
UCLA C	Claremont A	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCLA D	0	10	10	20
Claremont C	UCLA B	10	10	10	30
UCSD	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
USC	UCLA E	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
SIUE	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Purdue B	0	10	10	20