Tertiary+by+thekidrhodie14

Bibliography THE TERTIARY PERIOD  BY:THE KIDRHODIE14

INTRODUCTION

The Tertiary period was a special period in which mammals and plants flourished into how they are found in today's Earth. Rewind: Cretacious period, the period of the end of the dinosaurs. Fast-Forward: The Quarternary period was the age of the Ice Age and the age of the humans. The Tertiary Period lasted from 65 to 2.6 million years ago. The Tertiary period is the start of the c enozoic era and has 2 sub-periods called n eogene and paleogene. I will be talking and (hopefully) teaching you about the Tertiary period and it's amazing attributes.

ABIOTIC: Climate

The climate during the tertiary period was generally warm and mild. But the temperature was also cold in some spans of time. The earth was approximately the same latitudes of today. Massachusetts was found in a early North America which detached from Africa. Since, Antarctica was slowly starting to draw from Pangea and moved south of the equator it got extremely cold. Some glaciers were on the Earth. They formed, melted and froze because of the tertiary's haywire temperature. All in all, during the tertiary period, the earth had a quite unique form and temperature.

ABIOTIC: Landforms, Bodies of Water and Fossils

The Tertiary period was similar to today in terms of landforms. Many fossils were also found. Fossils were found in old volcanoes, hills and mountains. Paleontologists have usually found sycamore leaves and other plants, smilodons, three-toed horses, mastodons and petrified wood from the tertiary period. Many of the rocks from the tertiary period were from mountainous regions of the world. During the Tertiary period Gondwana split apart creating the Atlantic Ocean. This was a period of the forming and breaking up of land on Earth, so, many oceans and seas have formed.The land forms and bodies of water were forming into how they are found today on Earth.

BIOTIC

The Tertiary period was the rise of the mammals. Some of the mammals were porpoises, horses, smilodons, mastodons, cats, dogs and early bats. There were fish and amphibians like frogs and salamanders. The reptiles were very different from the Mesozoic Era. Instead of dinosaurs there were small lizards. Many flowering plants flourished in the Tertiary period. Some examples of the main vegetation are magnolias and palm trees. The birds were raptors and predator birds. The main new life forms are early hominids like austrolopithecus afarensis. The dominant life forms were large mammals. The variety of life in the tertiary period is astounding and that's what made this period so interesting.

REFLECTION

Doing this project was hard and challenging in many ways. I have learned that there was a period between the time of the dinosaurs and the time of the Ice Age. I've also learned that the terciary period was warm instead of cold like in the Quarternary Period. This project was hard because I had try out different ways to write this because I had lot's of information. This project was also hard because I went away in the middle of it. I had to catch up and be responsible to finish this project in time. What I liked about this project is all the animals I got to learn about. All the animals (like I said in my last paragraph) is what makes this period cool and interesting. By the end of the day when I finished this project I felt proud and I hope you liked it.