Refer to the Table and the Figure

question 65

Essay

Refer to the table and the figure.
Table 2
Figure 4
You are studying the long-term effects of plate movement for two land masses, land mass A and land mass B. Your goal is to understand how land mass movement has affected the species found on each land mass. Land mass B joined with land mass A 30 million years ago. Table 2 shows the number of individuals of each species (species A-F) found living on land mass B over time. Figure 4 shows these data plotted.
- Use the data in Table 2 and Figure 4 to answer the following questions:
a) Create a line graph of the species richness of land mass B over time (this will be referred to as Figure 6). The x-axis should be time in mya, ranging from 50-0 mya, and the y-axis should be species richness, ranging from 0-6.
b) What was the overall effect of the joining of land masses A and B on the species richness of land mass B?
c) Describe the similarities and differences in the patterns of change in species richness and composition through time.

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