Unit 4 Quiz- Geologic Time and Relative Dating

The Precambrian Eon is known for

• Age of Reptiles

• Age of Invertebrates

• 88% of Earth’s time

• Pangea Split

The Mesozoic Era is known as

• Age of Invertebrates

• Age of Reptiles

• Age of Mammals

The Paleozoic Era is known as

• Age of Invertebrates

• Age of Reptiles

• Age of Mammals

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The Cenozoic Era is known as

• Age of Invertebrates

• Age of Reptiles

• Age of Mammals

Match the time period with what lived during that time.

• Trilobites

• Cenozoic Era

• Saber-Toothed Tigers

• Precambrian Eon

• Pterosaur

• Paleozoic Era

• Stromatolites

• Mesozoic Era

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Match the time period with what happened during that time.

• Ice ages

• Mesozoic Era

• Primitive plants

• Paleozoic Era

• 88% of Earth's history

• Precambrian Eon

• Pangea split

• Cenozoic Era

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Geologic time is divided into segments based on

• types of life forms during certain time periods

• geologic changes over time

• fossils and rocks from certain periods

• all of the choices

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Order these divisions of time in order from longest(1) to shortest(4)

• Eon

• Era

• Epochs

• Period

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

___determines the order of events by comparing the positions of rocks.

• Superposition

• Index Fossils

• Absolute Dating

• Relative Dating

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which layer is the oldest?

• Layer 1 because it is closest to the surface.

• layer 2 because it is the thickest.

• Layer 3 because it has the most fossils.

• Layer 4 because it is on the bottom.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4