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In what year was Hugh Wood born?
1932
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Where was Sir Peter Maxwell Davies born?
Salford
[ "Lancashire\n\nMore recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932- Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937-, Bury),John McCabe (1939-2015, Huyton), Roger Smalley (1943-2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948-, Manchester), Steve Ma...
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When was the Royal Manchester College of Music founded?
1893
[ "Lancashire\n\nMore recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932- Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937-, Bury),John McCabe (1939-2015, Huyton), Roger Smalley (1943-2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948-, Manchester), Steve Ma...
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When was the Royal Northern College of Music formed?
1972
[ "Lancashire\n\nMore recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932- Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937-, Bury),John McCabe (1939-2015, Huyton), Roger Smalley (1943-2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948-, Manchester), Steve Ma...
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What did the Royal Manchester College of Music merge with?
the Northern College of Music
[ "Lancashire\n\nMore recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932- Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937-, Bury),John McCabe (1939-2015, Huyton), Roger Smalley (1943-2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948-, Manchester), Steve Ma...
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What era was 250 million to 247 million years ago?
Early Triassic
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What geologic climate was found in the Early Triassic?
deserts
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What landmass was still unbroken in the Early Triassic?
Pangaea
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What percentage of extinction of species had recently happened??
95%
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What species had evolved after the extinction and would become the basic predator in the Triassic?
Temnospondyli
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What event produced further adaptations during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?
climatic changes
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When was the top of archosaur diversity?
Jurassic
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What species spread towards the poles during the Jurassic?
Angiosperms
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What species dominated many tree floras by the end of the Cretaceous period?
angiosperms
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What types of species are thought to still have been dominate until after the extinction?
cycad and ferns
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What event sets the boundary for the Triassic?
Permian–Triassic extinction
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What percentage of marine life died during the extinction?
90% to 96%
[ "Mesozoic\n\nThe lower (Triassic) boundary is set by the Permian–Triassic extinction event, during which approximately 90% to 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates became extinct. It is also known as the \"Great Dying\" because it is considered the largest mass extinction in the Earth's history. ...
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How many terrestrial species died during the extinction?
70%
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What is the largest extinction of species in Earth's history known as?
Great Dying
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What is the possible cause of the upper Cretaceous extinction event ?
K–Pg) extinction
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What is the span of the Late Cretaceous period?
100 million to 65 million years
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What weather trend ocured in the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods?
cooling
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What climate was restricted to the equatorial areas?
tropics
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What type of weather changes did areas outside of the tropics experience?
extreme seasonal changes
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What event ended the age of the dinosaur by causing a 75% extinction?
K-T Extinction
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What is uncertain about the Cretaceous?
climate
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What atmospheric gas caused temperatures levels to be 10 degrees higher than today?
carbon dioxide
[ "Mesozoic\n\nThe climate of the Cretaceous is less certain and more widely disputed. Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are thought to have caused the world temperature gradient from north to south to become almost flat: temperatures were about the same across the planet. Average temperatures were al...
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What was about equal across the planet?
temperatures
[ "Mesozoic\n\nThe climate of the Cretaceous is less certain and more widely disputed. Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are thought to have caused the world temperature gradient from north to south to become almost flat: temperatures were about the same across the planet. Average temperatures were al...
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During the Cretaceous what climate was thought to be found in areas near the seas?
deserts
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What did large amounts of deposited un-decomposed organic matter later become?
black shale
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What was the span of the Late Triassic?
237 million to 200 million years
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Besides moderate precipitation, what weather conditions did the Late Triassic have?
heat spells
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When did the first dinosaurs evolve?
Triassic
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According to theory, what did climate change in the Late Triassic cause?
Triassic-Jurassic extinction
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What was the only archosaur to survive the fourth mass extinction?
crocodiles
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What is the span of the Early Cretaceous?
145 million to 100 million years
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What event of the Early Cretaceous caused the extinction of several species?
expansion of seaways
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What species died out due to the expansion of coastal shallows?
Ichthyosaurs
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What species dominated the seas?
Mosasaurs
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What dinosaur spread to every continent?
Iguanodon
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What caused the sea to rise during the Jurassic?
increase in seafloor
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Rising seas and displaced waters caused what element along the coasts?
flooded coastal areas
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Pangaea beginning to break apart created what new sea?
Tethys Sea
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What weather condition increased?
Temperatures
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As humidity increased what land area decreased?
deserts
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What is the span of years for the Early Jurassic?
200 million years to 175 million
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What feature of the climate produced a more tropical world?
more humid
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Besides Ichthyosaurs and Ammonites, what was the other dominate species in the seas?
Plesiosaurs
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What was the highest order of species n land?
Dilophosaurus
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What other order evolved during the Jurassic?
true mammals
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At what time was tectonic formation mild?
Mesozoic
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Where did the basic geological changes of this period occur?
Arctic
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What supercontinent split to form two smaller continents?
Pangaea
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What was the northern continent split from Pangaea?
Laurasia
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What was Pangaea's southern continent called?
Gondwana
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What type of animals took longer to reestablish?
specialized animals
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When did recovery of these diverse animals begin?
mid-Triassic
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How long after the Permian-Triassic extinction did animal recovery take to completion?
30M years
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What dominated animal life in the Triassic?
reptiles
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How many years after the extinction did animal recovery begin?
4M to 6M
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At what point did the Mesozoic era begin?
Permian–Triassic extinction
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When did the Mesozoic end?
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction
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What kind of geologic activity occurred during the Mesozoic?
tectonic
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Besides climate changes, what other important activity occurred during the Mesozoic?
evolutionary
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When mamals appeared they remained small until what period?
Cenozoic
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What is the span of years of the Middle Triassic?
247 million to 237 million
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What continuing event began in the Middle Triassic?
breakup of Pangaea
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During the breakup of Pangaea, what sea was created?
Tethys Sea
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From what had the ecosystem had to recover?
the Great Dying
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What type of animal began to flourish and become increasingly large?
reptiles
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How many years did the Late Jurassic cover?
163 million to 145 million
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What did the separation of Pangaea cause to become extinct?
sauropods and Ichthyosaurs
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What is the extinction caused by the splitting of Pangaea called?
Jurassic-Cretaceous extinction
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What caused the destruction of fern prairies and increasing shallows?
Sea levels rose
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What did the rise in sea levels open in the seaways?
Atlantic sea
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What was the general rainfall in the Triassic?
dry
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What could have made temperatures more extreme?
Low sea levels
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Because of distance form the sea and wide variance in temperatures, what was the interior of Pangaea like?
desert
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What were there periods of during the Triassic?
increased rainfall
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What was the Carnian Pluvial event?
increased rainfall
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What was the dominant plant species of the Mesozoic?
gymnosperms
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What is an example of a gymnosperm?
conifers
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What are the dominate plant species on Earth now?
angiosperms
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When did the Ginkgo evolve?
Mesozoic
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What famous tree species is believed to have evolved during the Mesozoic?
Sequoia
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In what decade was digital telephony transmission made possible?
the 1980s
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What is the minimum bit rate for compressed video and audio transmission?
128 kilobits/s
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What is an example of an early form of digital video and audio communication?
the Media space
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In what form did the first dedicated videoconferencing system appear as?
ISDN networks
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What company offered the first commercial videoconferencing system?
PictureTel Corp.
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What controls the conferencing while its active on the signaling plane?
The MC
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Where does the videoconferencing system manage conferencing creation?
the signaling plane
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What is one example of what the signaling plane controls in a videoconferencing system?
endpoint signaling
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On what plane does the MC operate?
the media plane
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What generates output streams from each endpoint?
The MP
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What technology has become more widely available and affordable?
High speed Internet connectivity
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What is an example of a personal videoconferencing system tool?
webcam
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What has made videoconferencing accessible to many?
The availability of freeware
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Videoconferencing freeware is widely available in what programs?
chat programs
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Videophone calls are different from videoconferencing in what way?
serve individuals, not groups
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