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Geologic Time
Test Description: Earth timeline and evolution questions
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1) What evidence do scientists use to assemble the geologic time scale.
A
Present day arrangement of the continents
B
Fossils and rock layers
C
They use history recorded by people a long time ago
D
They look at the plants and animals on the Earth today.
2) What is the name of the Era that takes up most of Earth's timeline but has very primitive plants and animals.
A
Pre-Cambrian
B
Paleozoic
C
Cenozoic
D
Mesozoic
3) At the beginning of time, the Earth was going through which processes?
A
Transitions from ice ages to warm climates
B
global warming and climate change
C
The Earth climate was stable and Pangea broke apart
D
cooling from a ball of magma, atmosphere forming, oceans forming
4) The Era of Earth's history dominated by marine life.
A
Mesozoic
B
Pre-Cambrian
C
Cenozoic
D
Paleozoic
5) At the end of each Era there was a
A
Big earthquake
B
Explosion of life
C
Mass extinction
D
Meteor shower
6) During the Paleozoic Era,
A
the first reptiles emerge
B
most life was in the oceans
C
land plants begin to form
D
all of these
7) The era of Earth's history dominated by reptiles including dinosaurs.
A
Pre-Cambrian
B
Cenozoic
C
Mesozoic
D
Paleozoic
8) The era of Earth's history dominated by mammals and flowering plants.
A
Mesozoic
B
Paleozoic
C
Cenozoic
D
Pre-Cambrian
9) Scientists believe the continents are moving which would explain Pangea - what causes the continents to move?
A
weathering and eroision
B
They are floating on water
C
Sea floor spreading and subduction
D
climate change
10) The eras of Earth time go in which order(from beginning to present)
A
Pre-Cambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
B
Paleozoic, Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Pre-Cambrian
C
Mesozoic, Pre-Cambrian, Cenozoic, Paleozoic
D
Cenozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Pre-Cambrian
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