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Abiotic during the Permian time Period The Permian time period included one of the biggest mass extinctions ever and it wasn’t the biotic that changed, it was the abiotic. As most of you know, the biotic and the abiotic depend on each other strictly to survive. When the abiotic changed during the Permian, the biotic couldn’t adapt quick enough causing tons of species to disappear off the face of the earth. What was happening during the Permian time period was Pangaea. All of the land was moving and joining together to form one super continent. This caused for many of the ocean’s to evaporate and deserts to expand. Since Pangaea had brought most of the land towards the equator and the latitude was mostly in the southern hemisphere it caused the weather to change drastically. With the new location of the land, and the oceans evaporating, it caused the temperature to be hot and humid regularly making the world a more tropical place everywhere. If Massachusetts was still part of Pangaea today, we would be near the central Pangaea Mountains and we would have hot temperature all year long. That’s no fun right? Well even though the world is a lot different from what it looked like back then, the landforms during the Permian were really something special that many love to study about today.

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