Question 1: The subsequent uplift of mountains in the western ________ region and a global fall in
sea levels combined to cause a temporary drying up of the
Mediterranean Sea (known as the Messinian salinity crisis)
near the end of the Miocene.
Question 3: Uplift of East
Africa in the Late Miocene was partly responsible for the
shrinking of tropical rain forests in that region, and ________ got drier as it
entered a zone of low rainfall in the Late Miocene.
Question 8: The Tethys Seaway continued to shrink and then
disappeared as ________ collided
with Eurasia in the Turkish-Arabian region between 19
and 12 Ma.
Question 10: In ________, a system similar to the North American one is used;
its periods are correspondingly called SALMAs (South American Land
Mammal Ages):[2]