Fossils, Mass Extinctions, and Great Transitions

The fin in the image is from which organism?

• Lungfish

• Eusthenopteron

• Acanthostega

• Pderpes

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What is the geological time scale?

• A list of every living thing ever

• A perfect accounting of the history of the rocks and fossils on Earth

• A timeline showing the major events in Earth's history and in the history of live on Earth

• All of the above

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The fin in the image is from which organism?

• Lungfish

• Eusthenopteron

• Acanthostega

• Pderpes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The fin in the image is from which organism?

• Lungfish

• Eusthenopteron

• Acanthostega

• Pderpes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

____ are broad spans based on typical life forms at that time.

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The Earth is approximately ____ years old.

• 3 billion

• 3.5 billion

• 4 million

• 4.6 billion

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What is a fossil?

• A drawing in rock

• An impression of an ancient organism preserved in rock

• Bones found in the ground from a recently deceased animal

• A copy of an ancient organism preserved in rock

The earliest part of Earth's history, which spans from Earths formation to 541 million years ago, when life first evolved in the form of microscopic organisms called

• Precambrian

• Phanerozoic

• Paleozoic

• Hadean

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Humans occupy the most recent era of time, which is called the

• Mesozoic

• Cenozoic

• Paleozoic

• Phanerozoic

The fin in the image is from which organism?

• Lungfish

• Eusthenopteron

• Acanthostega

• Pderpes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2