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
| 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 |
| Virginia Tech B | UNC D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |