New Caledonia, an island fragment of the sunken continent Zealandia since the Cretaceous, and home to the Kagu(pictured), has been likened to a "Jurassic Park"?
Question 1: As is the case today, photosynthesizing organisms, such as phytoplankton and land plants, formed the primary part of the ________ in the late Cretaceous.
Question 4: The first radiation of the diatoms (generally siliceous, rather than calcareous) in the oceans occurred during the Cretaceous; freshwater diatoms did not appear until the ________.
Question 5: ________ were common in the early and middle Cretaceous, but as the Cretaceous proceeded they faced growing competition from the adaptive radiation of birds, and by the end of the period only two highly specialized families remained.
Question 7: The Liaoninglagerstätte (________) in China provides a glimpse of life in the Early Cretaceous, where preserved remains of numerous types of small dinosaurs, birds, and mammals have been found.
Question 10: The Cretaceous ended with one of the largest mass extinctions in ________, the K-T extinction, when many species, including the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and large marine reptiles, disappeared.
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