Geological Time Scale and Mass Extinctions

What type of organism was the Ordovician period known for?

• Flying

• Land

• Marine

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Did trilobites exist in the ordovician period?

• Yes

• No

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What percentage of organisms went extinct during the ordovician-Silurian extinction

• 50

• 65

• 86

• 95

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Devonian period was know as . . .

• Age of the Dog

• Age of DInosaur

• Age of the Fish

Which extinction is known as the great dying?

• Ordovician

• Late Devonian

• Permian-Trassic

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What is a mass extinction?

• When all the species in a particular area on earth suddenly go extinct
• When multiple species from all over the earth suddenly go extinct 
• When one species goes extinct due to habitat changes
• When all life on earth is wiped out 

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Which extinction is considered the largest mass extinction in Earth's history? Basically 96% of all species on Earth disappeared.

• Ordovician Extinction

• Devonian Extinction

• Permian Extinction

• Triassic Extinction

• Cretaceous Extinction

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The Permian-Triassic extinction was caused by. . .

• Volcanic Eruption

• Meteorite hit

• Lang mass breaking up

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The triassic-jurassic extinction set the stage for. . .

• humans to rule

• fish to rule

• dinosaurs to rule the next time period

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction paved the way for small mammals because. . .

• fish went extinct

• dinosaurs went extinct

• birds went extinct

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