Geologic Time
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Carrie Vaughan
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What two pieces of evidence are used to divide and classify the geological time scale?
Living organisms
rock strata or layers
DNA
fossils
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Select all of the characteristics of index fossils:
easily recognizable
abundant (lots of them)
wide geographic distribution (found lots of places around the world)
live a long time (in MANY rock layers up and down)
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which Era was mainly dominated by dinosaurs?
Cenozoic
Jurassic
Mesozoic
Paleozoic
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A comet or asteroid impact on the earth is a frequently suggested cause for many of the mass extinctions. For which of the major mass extinctions does the most evidence exist that this was the main trigger for the event?
End Permian
Cretaceous (KT Event)
Late Devonian
Triassic
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When did Pangea break apart?
Cenozoic Era
Mesozoic Era
Paleozoic Era
Precambrian Era
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When did the first humans appear?
Cenozoic Era
Mesozoic Era
Paleozoic Era
Proterozoic Eon
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
All non-avian dinosaurs went extinct during the...
Cretaceous - Tertiary Extinction
Late Devonian Extinction
Holocene Extinction
Permian-Triassic Extinction
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-2
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