Earth's History Review

Earth's first atmosphere consisted of...

• carbon dioxide and oxygen

• hydrogen and helium

• water vapor and methane

• All of these

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Cells may have first come together because...

• the molecules began to photosynthesize

• prokaryotic structures had a symbiotic relationship

• clays provided structure for organic molecules

• All of these

The earliest known super continent was called...

• Pangea

• Gondwana

• Rodinia

• Laurentia

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Banded-iron formations are important because they...

• represent the first crust that solidified on Earth

• were mostly deposited during the Cambrian Explosion

• represented the time that large amounts of oxygen entered the atmosphere

• All of these

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

A mountain building event is called a(n)...

• orographic

• fissure event

• orogeny

• mountainogy

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The most basic building blocks of life are...

• covalent bonds

• proteins

• amino acids

• none of these

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The Permian Mass Extinction is thought to have been caused by...

• large volumes of volcanic eruptions in modern-day Siberia

• an ice age

• an asteroid impact

• geologists have no idea

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The order of periods, from oldest to youngest, during the Paleozoic Era is...

• Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian

• Devonian, Silurian, Cambrian, Mississippian, Permian, Pennsylvanian

• Cambrian, Devonian, Ordovician, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Silurian

• Permian, Pennsylvanian, Mississippian, Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician, Cambrian

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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is the process by which a single species evolves into several different species in a short time.

• Macroevolution

• Adaptive Radiation

• Coevolution

• Punctuated Equilibrium

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The largest known mass extinction occurred at the end of the ___ Period

• Silurian

• Pennsylvanian

• Permian

• Devonian