Geologic History of NYS Pages 6 and 7

What Period and Epoch was the diversity of trilobites at their peak?

• Ordivcian/ Early Ordivician

• Cambrian/ Miaolingian

• Paleogene/ Paleocene

• Jurassic/ Middle Jurassic

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What kind of fossil is a stimulograptus?

• Sponge

• Crinoid

• Trilobite

• Graptolite

What is Geologic History based on?

• Fossil Evidence

• Ice ages

• Plate Tectonics

• Radioactive Deecay

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What Makes up the Phanerozoic Eon?

• Triassic/ Jurassic/ Cretaceous

• Hadean/Archean/ Proterozoic

• Paleozoic/Mesozoic/ Cenozoic

• Paleogene/ Neogene/ Quarternary

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How many of millions of years ago was the advance and retreat of the last continental ice?

• 2.6 MYA

• 23 MYA

• 125 MYA

• 252 MYA

What land plant was around when the Catskill Delta formed?

• Mammoth

• Bothriolepis

• Eospermatopteris

• Agoniatites

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In what Epoch did the earliest grasses first evolve?

• Late Cretaceous

• Paleocene

• Early Cretaceous

• Late Permian

What is the estimated time and origin of Earth and the Solar System?

• 4.6 million of years ago

• 3.5 billion of years ago

• .50 million of years ago

• 4.6 billion of years ago

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Each era is known for the animals that lived during that time. The Precambrian is known for ​ (a)   , the Paleozoic is known for ​ (b)   , the Mesozoic is known for ​ (c)   , the Cenozoic is known for ​ (d)   .

• little life
• fish
• reptiles
• mammals

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Geologic Time is broken down into smaller parts called eons, ____, periods, and epochs.

• eras

• decades

• lightyears

• points

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