Chapter 11 Geologic Time Scale

Which could contribute to a mass-extinction event?

• an earthquake

• a hot summer

• a hurricane

• a volcanic eruption

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What distinguished this organism from organisms that lived earlier in time?

• It had hard parts

• it lived on land

• it was a reptile

• it was multicellular

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What are the many divisions of geologic time scale based on?

• Changes in the fossil record every billion years

• changes in the dossil recor debery million years

• gradual changes in the fossil record

• sudden changes in the fossil record

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Which is NOT a cause of a mass extinction event?

• meteorite collision

• severe hurricane

• tectonic activity

• volcanic activity

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Which is the correct order of eras from oldest to youngest

• Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic

• Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Paleozoic

• Paleozoic, Cenozoic, Mesozoic

• Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic

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Which even produced the Appalachian Mountains

• breakup of Pangaea

• collision of continents

• flooding of continenet

• opening of the Atlantic Ocean

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Which were the first organisms to inhabit land environments?

• amphibians

• plants

• reptiles

• trilobites

Approximately how long did Precambrian time last?

• 0.5 billion years

• 3.5 billion years

• 4 billion years

• 4.25 billion years.

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Which is the smallest unit of geologic time?

• eon

• epoch

• era

• period

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Which did not occur in the Paleozoic era?

• appearance of mammals

• development of coal swamps

• evolution of inverebrates

• formation of Pangaea

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