The document discusses the geological history of the Mediterranean sea. Scientists aboard the Glomar Challenger sought to understand changes in the Mediterranean's fauna millions of years ago and the origin of dome-like structures beneath the seafloor. By analyzing samples, the scientists determined that the Mediterranean had once been a vast desert enclosed by land, with waters that evaporated over millions of years, leaving layers of salt and gypsum.
The document discusses the geological history of the Mediterranean sea. Scientists aboard the Glomar Challenger sought to understand changes in the Mediterranean's fauna millions of years ago and the origin of dome-like structures beneath the seafloor. By analyzing samples, the scientists determined that the Mediterranean had once been a vast desert enclosed by land, with waters that evaporated over millions of years, leaving layers of salt and gypsum.
The document discusses the geological history of the Mediterranean sea. Scientists aboard the Glomar Challenger sought to understand changes in the Mediterranean's fauna millions of years ago and the origin of dome-like structures beneath the seafloor. By analyzing samples, the scientists determined that the Mediterranean had once been a vast desert enclosed by land, with waters that evaporated over millions of years, leaving layers of salt and gypsum.
The document discusses the geological history of the Mediterranean sea. Scientists aboard the Glomar Challenger sought to understand changes in the Mediterranean's fauna millions of years ago and the origin of dome-like structures beneath the seafloor. By analyzing samples, the scientists determined that the Mediterranean had once been a vast desert enclosed by land, with waters that evaporated over millions of years, leaving layers of salt and gypsum.
Mediterranean Paragraph 1 In 1970 geologists Kenneth J. Hsu and William B. F. Ryan were collecting research data while aboard the oceanographic research vessel Glomar Challenger. An objective of this particular cruise was to investigate the foor o the Mediterranean and to resolve questions about its geologic history. One question was related to evidence that the invertebrate fauna (animals without spines) of the Mediterranean had changed abruptly
hypothesis. The investigators theorized that about 20 million years ago, the Mediterranean was a broad seaway linked to the Atlantic by two narrow straits. Crustal movements closed the straits, and the landlocked Mediterranean began to evaporate. Increasing salinity caused by the evaporation resulted in the extermination of scores of invertebrate species. Only a few organisms especially tolerant of very
mentioned in paragraph 1 as a change that occurred in the fauna of the Mediterranean? A Most invertebrate species disappeared during a wave of extinctions. B A few hardy species wiped out many of the Mediterranean’s invertebrates. C Some invertebrates migrated to the Atlantic Ocean. D New species of fauna populated the Mediterranean when the old migrants returned.
about the shape of the domes but not about their chemical composition and origin.
Where would the sentence best t?
(A) Another task for the Glomar
Challenger’s scientists was to try to determine the origin of the domelike masses buried deep beneath the Mediterranean seafoor. (B) These structures had been detected years earlier
ACADEMIC READING TEST 1 PASSAGE 1 SAVE THE TURTLES A.) Leatherback Turtles Follow The General Sea Turtle Body Plan of Having A Large, Flattened, Round Body With Two Pairs of Very Large Flippers An
ACADEMIC READING TEST 1 PASSAGE 1 SAVE THE TURTLES A.) Leatherback Turtles Follow The General Sea Turtle Body Plan of Having A Large, Flattened, Round Body With Two Pairs of Very Large Flippers An
