TRUE OR FALSE  6. Plate tectonics explains much about the current distributions of organisms, such as why Australian fauna and flora contrast so sharply with those of the rest of the world. 7. The disappearance of dinosaurs (except birds) allowed for the expansion of reptiles in diversity and size 8. The Permian mass extinction extinguished more than half of all marine species and eliminated many families of terrestrial plants and animals, including dinosaurs.

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6. Plate tectonics explains much about the current distributions of organisms, such as why Australian fauna and flora contrast so sharply with those of the rest of the world.

7. The disappearance of dinosaurs (except birds) allowed for the expansion of reptiles in diversity and size

8. The Permian mass extinction extinguished more than half of all marine species and eliminated many families of terrestrial plants and animals, including dinosaurs. 

9. Like all aspects of evolution, evolutionary novelties, result from interactions between organisms and their current environments.

10.The Ediacaran biota included both fungi and animals, along with various organisms of unknown taxonomic affinity

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