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Earths History And Geologic Time Scale
Test Description: Major events in Geologic time and the time scale
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Studying fossils has helped scientists learn that
A
Earth is 4 million years old and is constantly changing
B
Earth is only a few thousand years old
C
life has not changed much during earths history
D
Earth is more than 4 billion years old and is constantly changing
2) Which is the smallest unit of geologic time
A
era
B
epoch
C
eon
D
period
3) When looking at the layers of sedimentary rock what can you conclude about their ages
A
estimated ages
B
their absolute ages
C
nothing
D
Their relative ages to each other
4) What do scientists use to divide the geologic time scale into different divisions
A
earths rotation around the sun
B
events in human history
C
major events or changes on the earth
D
sets of 1 billion years
5) What caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs
A
the ice ages
B
snowball earth
C
a large meteor struck the earth
D
the break up of pangaea
6) All time before the cambrian explosion of life is called
A
pre apocolyptic time
B
pre adolescent time
C
pre cambrian time
D
pre historic time
7) What feature formed in Michigan after the end of the latest ice age 10000 yearrs ago
A
the city of detroit
B
frost middle school
C
the great lakes
D
the mississippi river
8) What is the largest division of time on the geologic time scale
A
epoch
B
period
C
eon
D
era
9) What formed in the atmosphere that allowed life to evolve on land
A
clouds
B
the ozone layer
C
the ionosphere
D
nitrogen gas
10) Human history makes up
A
a very tiny fraction of earths history
B
a large amount of earths history
C
about one third of earths history
D
approximately haly of earths history
11) Who is considered the father of modern geology
A
Lord Kelvin
B
Bill nye
C
Alfred Wegener
D
James hutton
12) Who died in Greenland trying to find evidence for his theory of continental drift
A
James Hutton
B
Alfred Wegener
C
Lord Kelvin
D
Albert Einstein
13) Who used mathematical formulas to calculate the age of the Earth as 20 million years old
A
Lord Hobbes
B
Lord Calvin
C
Lord Kelvin
D
Alfred Wegener
14) What is the name of the supercontinent that triggered Earths first cataclysm called snowball earth
A
Spongaea
B
Mordor
C
Rodinia
D
Pangaea
15) 200 million years from now a new supercontinent may form. What is it called
A
Pangaea Ultima
B
Rodinia
C
Pangaea
D
Pangaea Minima
16) A crater was discovered as evidence for the meteor that struck the Earth killing the dinosaurs. Where is this crater
A
off the coast of Mexico
B
in Australia
C
off the coast of California
D
in Michigan
17) When did the last ice age end
A
1 million years ago
B
1000 years ago
C
10 million years ago
D
10000 years ago
18) Africa and Europe are colliding creating which mountains
A
The Appalachians
B
The Rockies
C
The Alps
D
The Himalayas
19) What geologic period had huge swamps and produced the fossil fuels we burn today
A
Permian
B
Carboniferous
C
Devonian
D
Silurian
20) How long do we have before the earth will cool off and plate tectonics will stop causing earth to die
A
2 million years
B
2 years
C
2 billion years
D
200000 years
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