Science Evolution Test

During which time period did animals, plants and fungi colonize the land? (This is the same time period amphibians and dense forests emerged)?

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

• Precambrian

• Paleozoic

The name of the layer of Earth on which tectonic plates float is called ....

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• core

• crust

This time period is known as the "age of the mammals."

• Paleozoic

• Precambrian

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

During this time period, few fossils are found because the organisms were mainly bacteria and soft-bodies organisms.

• Paleozoic

• Precambrian

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

The "explosion of life" occurred during which time period?

• Paleozoic

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

• Precambrian

Which time period is known as the "Age of the Fish and Invertebrates?"

• Mesozoic

• Precambrian

• Cenozoic

• Paleozoic

What happens to tectonic plates at divergent boundaries?

• The plates grind past one another

• The plates collide with each other

• One plate subdues beneath the other plate

• The plates are moving away from each other

This is the time period when dinosaurs dominated Earth...

• Paleozoic

• Cenozoic

• Precambrian

• Mesozoic

What happens at the mid-ocean ridge?

• coastal mountains form

• the older/denser oceanic crust sinks below the young/less dense oceanic plate

• a rift valley forms

• new oceanic crust forms

Sedimentary rock can become metamorphic rock through the process of...

• all these processes, depending on the location of the rock

• Heating and pressure

• erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation

• melting and cooling