Paleontology Geologic Time Scale Quiz

How old is our Earth?

• 4.6 billion years old

• 1,000 years old

• 1.3 days old

We divide modern time into what two things?

• time and date

• Decades and centuries

• name and age

What two things now do we use to open our past?

• time machines

• books and the elderly

• Detective work and technology

Before absolute dating, what two things did we use?

• Relative dating and fossils

• books and computers

• fossils and absolute dating

How long does it take a lake to fill with sediment?

• a few months

• millions of years

• 10 years

We divide time into two giant pieces, what are they

• Precambrian and Postcambrian

• Cambrian and Mesozic

• Precambrian and Phanerozoic era

What country uses the geologic time scale more than anyone?

• North America

• Europe

• Asia

What is the geologic time scale constantly doing?

• being renamed

• nothing

• Changing, being amended

Scientific _________ ____ and modern ___________ __________ have only recently unlocked the clues that reveal the ancient age of our planet.

• Detective work and Radiometric technology

• method

• Finn's scientific discoveries

We often can tell the correct sequence of past formations by using ________ ______ and _______.

• time and energy

• Relative dating and Fossils

• names and ages and locations