Phanerozoic eon

Dinosaurs were living during Mesozoic, Triassic and Jurassic eras and eventually became extinct during the Cretaceous period. In all of these eras dinosaur fossils were found. What does this evidence tell scientists about how natural processes have changed Earth over time?

• Dinosaurs fossils in varying rock layers show that as the population changed they were fossilized in different rock layers by Earth’s natural processes.

• Dinosaur fossils take a long time to form and demonstrate how long the natural processes take to change the

  Earth

• Dinosaur fossils are formed within layers of sedimentary rock that were laid down by natural Earth processes which

  no longer occur today showing how Earth has changed.

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Dinosaurs were the dominant animal group in the ...................... era.

• Cenozoic

• Paleozoic

• Mesozoic

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Life started in the Phanerozoic eon, around 542 millions years ago.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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The first animals (living things) appeared on the oceans and seas.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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......... was a supercontinent, which has separated to become the continents we know today.

• Pangea

• Competition

• Era

• Mesozoic

• Hadean eon

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A period is divided into eras.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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A timeline of earth's past is called the

• Geologic Time scale

• period

• radioactive decay

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Arrange the time units in the geologic time scale starting from longest to shortest

• eon, epoch, era, period

• eon, era, period, epoch

• epoch, period, eon, period

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Geologic time scale is divided into

• equal units

• unequal units

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The extinction of many species on earth within a short period of time.

• extinction

• mass extinction

• land bridge

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