WorksheetsEarth's History PASS Review
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What do we call traces or remains of living things from long ago?
a)
fossils
b)
history
c)
trace fossils
d)
fossil fuels
2.
What type of fossil forms when minerals soak into the remains and harden over time, “Turn to stone?”
a)
trace fossils
b)
petrified fossils
c)
original remains
d)
mold and cast
3.
What type of fossil shows evidence of an animal’s presence in a given location such as footprints, trails, animal holes?
a)
trace fossil
b)
original remains
c)
carbon film
d)
mold and cast
4.
What type of fossil forms when dead plants or animals are squeeze between layers of mud or clay until only an image is left on the rock.
a)
carbon film
b)
mold and cast
c)
trace fossils
d)
original remains
5.
What type of fossil forms when a visible shape that was left after an animal or plant was buried in sediment and then decayed away? Later this is filled with sand and hardened into stone leaving an exact impression of the animal.
a)
mold and cast
b)
carbon film
c)
petrified fossils
d)
trace fossils
6.
What do we call a tubular shaped sample from Greenland or the Antarctic that helps scientists learn more about the Earth’s atmosphere and oxygen levels in the past?
a)
ice core
b)
tree rings
c)
index
d)
relative age
7.
What do you call the comparison of one rock layer to known rock layers?
a)
relative age
b)
absolute age
c)
index
d)
ice core
8.
What type of fossil was very common, lived in many areas, and existed only during specific spans of time?
a)
carbon film
b)
trace fossil
c)
index fossil
d)
petrified fossil
9.
The amount of time since the rock was formed. It’s chronological age.
a)
relative age
b)
index age
c)
absolute age
d)
carbon date
10.
Which layer have been folded?
a)
Layers B and C
b)
Layer's G and F
c)
Layer A
d)
Layer X, Y
11.
Which layer is the youngest over all?
a)
B it is the top layer
b)
H it is the bottom layer
c)
A it is an intrusion
d)
X, Y it is a fault
12.
Which is the youngest and why? Layer XY or A
a)
Layer XY because it is a fault
b)
Layer A because it is an undisturbed intrusion
c)
Layer XY because it displaces the intrusion
d)
Layer A because it is offset by the fault
13.
What do we call the type of geologic dating of rock layers and fossils?
a)
absolute age
b)
relative age
c)
carbon age
d)
isometric age
14.
Give an example of an index fossil.
a)
trilobite
b)
footprint
c)
shell
d)
burrow
15.
What do we call a trait or behavior that helps an organism survive and reproduce?
a)
adaptation
b)
variation
c)
trait
d)
advantage
16.
What do we call genetic differences that occur among species, these develop as a species adapts to its environment.
a)
adaptation
b)
trait
c)
variation
d)
advantage
17.
What do we call changes in the genes among members of the same species? These can occur randomly and as a result of a trait being more fit for an environment.
a)
adaptations
b)
traits
c)
variations
d)
advantages
18.
What do we call the process that explains survival of the fittest and shows how species can change over time?
a)
adaptation
b)
natural selection
c)
relative change
d)
evolution
19.
What do you call the theory, which is used by scientists to explain the genetic variations among different species and how these species change over time?
a)
Evolution
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Adaptation
d)
Variation
20.
Overharvesting of ivory from African Elephants.
a)
Natural cause of extinction
b)
Human cause of extinction
21.
Climate changes as a result of massive volcanic eruptions such as Yellowstone, Tambora, and Pinatubo.
a)
Natural cause of extinction
b)
Human cause of extinction
22.
The introduction of alien species such as rats or weasels into New Zealand’s ecosystems.
a)
Natural cause of extinction
b)
Human cause of extinction
23.
Competition for food or other resources with other species or organisms. Such as mammals competing with dinosaurs for available resources and eating dinosaur eggs.
a)
Natural cause of extinction
b)
Human cause of extinction
24.
List the three major era of geologic time.
a)
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
b)
Paleozoic, Precambrian, Archaen
c)
Phanerozoic, Cambrian, Cenozoic
d)
Paleozoic, Cretaceous, Cenozoic
25.
Which era of geologic time were reptiles dominant?
a)
Precambrian
b)
Paleozoic
c)
Mesozoic
d)
Cenozoic
26.
Which era of geologic time were mammals dominant?
a)
Precambrian
b)
Paleozoic
c)
Mesozoic
d)
Cenozoic
27.
What era of geologic history did flowering plants appear?
a)
Precambrian
b)
Paleozoic
c)
Mesozoic
d)
Cenozoic
28.
Fossils provide evidence for all of the following except?
a)
changes in Earth’s surface
b)
how Earth originally formed
c)
how environments on Earth have changed over time
d)
how groups of organisms have changed over time
29.
The mass extinction at the end of the Paleozoic may have been the result of the formation of
a)
Pangaea
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Atlantic Ocean
d)
Gandwanaland
30.
Invertebrates, fish, and amphibians were dominant during what era of geologic time?
a)
Precambrian
b)
Paleozoic
c)
Mesozoic
d)
Cenozoic
31.
The earliest forms of life appeared during
a)
precambrian
b)
paleozoic
c)
mesozoic
d)
cenozoic
32.
Which option is the correct order for the division of geologic time
a)
Eon, era, period, epoch
b)
Era, eon, epoch, period
c)
epoch, era, eon, period
d)
Eon, era, epoch period
33.
What era did cone bearing plants appear
a)
Precambrian
b)
Paleozoic
c)
Mesozoic
d)
Cenozoic
34.
What theory is has the most evidence to support why the dinosaurs died out?
a)
There was an asteroid that hit the Earth 65 million years ago
b)
There was an unusual number of volcanic eruptions 65 mya
c)
The rise rise of the mammals 65 mya caused a competition for food
d)
A major climate change caused by global cooling
35.
What criteria do scientists use to define the end of one era and the beginning of another?
a)
A change in the climate based on ice core data
b)
Change in fossil records due to climate changes
c)
The rise rise of the mammals 65 mya caused a competition for food
d)
A change in the fossil records due to mass extinction
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