Answer the following questions. Use a separate sheet for your answers.

1. List the order in which the major types of animals appeared on Earth.

LIST OF PERIOD IN MAJOR TYPES OF ANIMALS

ORDER
Cambrian Period first fish (first animal with backbones)
Ordovician Period major diversification of animal life
Silurian Period First vascular plants
Devonian Period first amphibians, fish diversity
Carboniferous Period first reptiles, trees, seed ferns
Permian Period Major extinction, reptiles diversity
Triassic Period First mammals, first dinosaurs
Jurassic Period first birds
Tertiary Period mammals diversity

2. Compare terrestrial communities in the Devonian and the Cretaceous

periods. Discuss the differences between them in the diversity of plants
and animals, and develop some hypotheses as to why those differences
existed.

Cretaceous period was a revolution of the plants life, with the sudden
appearance of flowering plants, such as ancestors of the beech, fig, magnolia
and sassafras.