Mesozoic-Cenozoic period. 65 million years ago a meteorite roughly 10 km across hit the earth’s surface, and the impact would be a catalyst to the extinction of 75% of the species living on earth at the time, including the dinosaurs. The impact of the meteorite would have instantly killed any organisms within proximity. But a majority of destruction happened after the impact. The impact blew enough dust, and debris into the atmosphere…
Dinosaurs were said to be extinct. Said to be gone two-hundred thirty million years ago. Though, Michael Crichton uses his amazing writing skills and universal theme to bring these ancient animals back to life. In the book Jurassic Park, paleontologists, doctors, lawyers, and two children venture off to Costa Rica to see what elder John Hammond and his money has been up to for the past five years. When they arrive one day they could not believe what they saw. Humongous dinosaurs roaming around…
(Pasichnyk, 2011), but the 2 theories that have become the most widely accepted as they have the most amount of supporting evidence are the Impact Theory (otherwise known as the Alvarez Hypothesis (Smith, 2005)) and the Volcanic Theory (Pasichnyk, 2011). The Impact Theory states that millions of years ago a comet or an asteroid struck the Earth and the impact of that is what killed the dinosaurs, it also caused the meteor to evaporate covering the earth in a layer of dust (Smith, 2005). In…
Sixty-five million years ago, dinosaurs like the tyrannosaurus rex and the triceratops once roamed the Earth. Suddenly all these great creatures disappeared and it’s not quite sure how they vanished from existence. There are several theories to explain what is known to be the most popular mass extinction of all time. Asteroid The belief that an asteroid struck the planet earth is the most common and most believed theory. This theory has more evidence to back it up than just a giant rock…
(1911-88) and Walter Alvarez (1940-) discovered in the geological record a distinct layer of iridium–an element found in abundance only in space–that corresponds to the precise time the dinosaurs died. This suggests that a comet, asteroid or meteor impact event…
negative impact humans are having on Earth, but he claims that we can save it, and almost seems to be bringing people together for the cause, in a more supportive manner.…
the county around the 1970’s. Talking with Gayla on my Grandmother’s occupational impact she recalled her mother coming into her health class once, “It was my health class she spoke too, about alcoholism and the effects it can have on a children 's brain”. So not only did my Grandma make appearances at AA meetings she came and spoke to the school to raise awareness to teenagers in school. Not only does that impact the school district, it helps raise awareness in a place where it need to be…
for everybody and everything on planet earth. Many critics thought the acting in Deep Impact was excellent and the director, Mimi Leder, put emotion into a majestic movie based on the scientific script. Directing Mimi Leder had a lot on her plate. How was she going to make this world end in Deep Impact? Mimi Leder bring “faith” into the film something a Hollywood director has never done (Kimble 54). Deep Impact is one of the most convoluted disaster movies however it has too many characters…
THEIR ARE MANY MANY THEORIES ON WHY THE DINOSAURS BECAME EXTINCT THE CAUSE OF THIS MASS EXTINCTION VARIES WIDELY. Some of those theories are that Years ago an asteroid crashed onto Earth’s surface. Mountains formed within minutes. In America, a tsunami hit covering plants and animals, under piles of rubble. Debrie was scattered, The planet was broken down and it stayed that way for years. But the most clear explanation to why the dinosaurs rapidly died out with the Mose scientific evedence is…
at the nurse’s station doing homework and when I was done, I would go talk to the patients. The seniors would always tell me stories or make me sit and watch Golden Girls with them. There was one elderly African-American woman who had a tremendous impact on my life whose name was Melinda. She was 101 when I was approximately 12 years old. Melinda had lost her leg to a staph infection and had Alzheimer’s, but that did not stop her from rolling around in her wheelchair talking to me. I grew up as…