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WorksheetsEnvironment and Change Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the name of the earliest era?
a)
Precambrian
b)
Paleozoic
c)
Mesozoic
d)
Cenozoic
2.
What is pangaea?
a)
puzzle
b)
supercontinent
c)
Asia
d)
North and South America
3.
During what era did pangaea start to break up?
a)
Cenozoic
b)
Paleozoic
c)
Mesozoic
d)
Phanerozoic
4.
What major event occurred 66 million years ago?
a)
modern human born
b)
first forests
c)
first dinosaurs
d)
mass extinction
5.
During what period were placental mammals introduced?
a)
Cretaceous
b)
Triassic
c)
Devonian
d)
Cambrian
6.
During what eon were complex multicellular organisms introduced?
a)
Archean
b)
Phanerozoic
c)
Proterozoic
d)
Precambrian
7.
The Quaternary Period is divided into what two epochs?
a)
Holocene and Paleocene
b)
Pleistocene and Miocene
c)
Holocene and Pleistocene
d)
Pleistocene and Pilocene
8.
What life form developed 500 million years ago?
a)
amphibians
b)
multicellular organisms
c)
dinosaurs
d)
early shelled organisms
9.
210 million years ago was during what period?
a)
Mesozoic
b)
Cretaceous
c)
Jurassic
d)
Triassic
10.
What is the name of the current Eon?
a)
Quaternary
b)
Tertiary
c)
Cenozoic
d)
Phanerozoic
11.
The geologic time scale reviews the history of Earth by studying what?
a)
rocks
b)
fossils
c)
rocks and fossils
d)
none of these
12.
Birds favored green beetles over brown, years later there were no more green beetles. This is an example of ......
a)
variation
b)
adaptation
c)
natural selection by evolution
d)
mutations
13.
Which statement supports the "peppered moth" evolution by natural selection theory?
a)
White moths turned black because of the soot from the Industrial Revolution.
b)
Dark moths were more plentiful because of their genetics.
c)
Soot from the Industrial Revolution caused white moths to be eaten by predators, thus dark colored moths survived and reproduced.
d)
none
14.
The order in which rock layers are deposited is called ....
a)
absolute age dating
b)
carbon dating
c)
radioactive dating
d)
relative age dating
15.
All the fossils ever discovered on Earth make up the ...
a)
fossil record
b)
geologic time scale
c)
Earth's history
d)
relative age dating
16.
Camouflage is an example of
a)
adaptation
b)
variation
c)
natural selection
d)
evolution
17.
Hair color, eye color, or skin color are all examples of ...
a)
adaptations
b)
variations
c)
camouflage
d)
natural selection
18.
The legs of a spider produce an oily substance is an example of ....
a)
variation
b)
adaptation
c)
natural selection
d)
evolution
19.
Structures that suggest particular species are related are called....
a)
homologous structures
b)
analogous structures
c)
vestigial structures
d)
developmental biology
20.
Differences in these structures suggest that certain species are not related.
a)
homologous structures
b)
analogous structures
c)
vestigial structures
d)
developmental biology
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