First Periodical Exam in Earth and Life Science

1. It places events or rocks in their chronological sequence or order of occurrence without knowing their actual age

• absolute dating

• carbon dating

• relative dating

• paleontology

2. It is the study of rock layers and layering.

• Stratigraphy

• Petrology

• Paleontology

• Seismology

3. It is a remnant or trace of organisms of a past geologic age.

• Carbon Dating

• Petrology

• Paleontology

• Fossil

4. He is an English engineer and canal builder who discovered that each rock formation in the canal he worked on contained fossils.

• Henry Otley Beyer

• W. Fisher

• William Smith

• Alfred Wegener

5. Associated with a particular span of geologic time.

• Index Fossils

• Cast Fossils

• Mold Fossils

• Trace Fossils

6. It was considered the “chaotic eon” and stretched from about 4.6 to 3.8 BYA.

• Hadean

• Archean

• Devonian

• Cambrian

7. It was the time of great changes: oxygenation of the atmosphere, origin and diversification of eukaryote life, appearance of multicellular animal life, and the motion of continental drift.

• Proterozoic

• Cenezoic

• Devonian

• Cambrian

8. The first animal to succeed in adapting itself to breathe air during the Paleozoic era.

• Mammals

• Reptiles

• Amphibians

• Birds

9. The first true terrestrial vertebrates existed which flourished during the Mesozoic era.

• Mammals

• Reptiles

• Amphibians

• Birds

10. He is a seismologist who discovered in 1936 that Earth has a solid inner core and his studies showed that the hot spherical solid has a radius of 1250 kilometers.

• Alfred Wegener

• William Smith

• Inge Lehman

• W. Fisher