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Many scientific disciplines were involved in understanding what caused the KT extinction. Explain some of the different types of sciences that were involved in uncovering and understanding the evidence and what each of them contributed.
Compare and contrast the Earth's landscape today to that of the moon. Why are they different?
Compare and contrast continental crust to oceanic crust. Discuss each one's chemical composition and characteristics. Also discuss the age of each and explain why this is so.
Explain what finding a connected dinosaur fossil in the rock record above the KT boundary would mean and why.
Discuss how geologists once viewed catastrophe theories previous to Alvarez's discovery and how geologists now view them. Explain how modern scientific thinking changed as a result of Alvarez's discoveries.
At the end of the book are more than twenty pages of the author's notes. Do you think these and the reference footnotes were an effective tool, or were they distracting or unnecessary? Discuss your opinion and support it with examples or facts from the book.
Chapter 1 tells what happened 65 million years ago, and the rest of the book give supporting details by describing the discoveries and clues that told scientists about what happened. Make a list of all the discoveries and the evidence that each of them offered to support the impact theory.
Why was the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crashing into Jupiter "profoundly satisfying" to the author? Discuss how seeing an impact on Jupiter supported Alvarez's impact theory.
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