The Paleozoic

What type of event usually marks the end of an Era

• A Mass Extinction

• A Quinceanera

• An earthquake

• A Volcanic Eruption

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The paleozoic era spans from

• 540 million years ago to 252 million years ago

• 600 million years ago to 136 million years ago

• 4.5 billion years ago to 252 million years ago

• 252 million years ago to 66 million years ago

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During the _________, virtually all animal groups on Earth evolved & inhabited the oceans

• Cambrian explosion

• Silurian explosion

• Permian explosion

• Permian extinction

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For much of the Paleozoic era, which groups dominated the ocean?

• fishes, arthropods, & cephalopods

• sharks & whales

• mammals

• flowering plants

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A prominent group of "armored fish" during the Paleozoic were called

• placoderms

• ammonites

• crinoids

• trilobites

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The greatest extinction in the history of earth is called

• the great dying

• The big extinction

• armageddon of

  animals

• greatest extinction in the history of earth is called the K-T event.

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In the Cambrian era, the creatures live MOSTLY in...

• the ocean

• the ice

• the grass

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Trilobites were present in the Cambrian

• TRUE

• FALSE

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When was the supercontinent Pangaea Formed ?

• Late Paleozoic

• Early Paleozoic

• Middle Paleozoic

• Early Cambrian

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Life at the beginning of the Paleozoic Era was. . .

• Primitive

• Advanced