Quiz #4 Earth's History

The earth is ______________of years old

• Hundreds

• Millions

• Billions

• Trillions

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Mammals are a dominant group in which era?

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

• Paleozoic

• Cambrianozoic

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What era did the formation of the earth occur?

• Paleozoic

• Precambrian

• Cenozoic

• Cambrian

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How old do Paleontologists believe the Earth is?

• 2019 years old

• 3.6 billion years old

• 4.6 billion years old

• 4.6 million years old

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What type of event usually marks the end of an Era

• A Mass Extinction

• A Quinceanera

• An earthquake

• A Volcanic Eruption

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90% of Earth’s history occurred during which era?

• Precambrian

• Paleozoic

• Mesozoic

• Cenozoic

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a division of geologic time; a subdivision of a period. Shortest length of time.

• geologic time scale

• era

• period

• epoch

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During the Cambrian Explosion that began the Paleozoic Era, the many new forms of life that evolved ____

• lived on land
• were invertebrates that lived in the sea
• were vertebrates covered with fur or scales
• were single-celled

Which organism appeared first?

• Development of Fish
• Appearance of Humans
• First single-celled organisms (Cyanobacteria)
• Appearance of Jellyfish and Corals

The geologic time scale is a record of

• the thickness of sedimentary rock layers

• the rate of fossil formation

• the life forms and geologic events in Earth's history

• the time since the evolution of dinosaurs