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Intro GTS

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How old is the Earth?
a)
6375 years old
b)
200,500 years old
c)
4.6 billion years old
d)
36 billion years old
2.
When did the first hominids evolve? (ancestors of humans)
a)
2 million years
b)
20 thousands years
c)
4 billion years
d)
40 billion years
3.
When did the first homo sapiens evolve? (humans)
a)
2 million years
b)
200 thousand years
c)
4 billion years
d)
40 billion years
4.
Did man walk around on Earth with Dinosaurs?
a)
Yes
b)
No
c)
They were on Earth at the same time at the end of the Dinosaur Era
5.
What was the first form of life?
a)
Man/Woman
b)
Bacteria
c)
Viruses
d)
Trees
6.
How many years did the dinosaurs roam Earth?
a)
about 3,000
b)
about 150 million
c)
about 500 million
d)
about 40 billion
7.
How many mass extinction events has earth had?
a)
1
b)
3
c)
5
d)
8
8.
Did flowering plants or humans come first?
a)
Humans
b)
Flowering Plants
9.
Mammals did not evolve until AFTER the dinosaurs became extinct.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
What killed the dinosaurs?
a)
Volcanism
b)
Asteroid
c)
Disease
d)
Glaciation 
11.
The last ice age  ended how long ago?
a)
1 million years
b)
150 million years
c)
6, 000 years
d)
11,000 years
12.
What was the name of the smallest dinosaur?
a)
Compsognathus
b)
Argentinosaurus huinculensis
c)
TREX
13.
What time period did TREX live in?
a)
Cenozoic
b)
Mesozoic
c)
Paleozoic
d)
Precambrian
14.
What ERA did TREX live in?
a)
Cretaceous 
b)
Jurassic
c)
Triassic
d)
Quaternary
15.
The first bird evolved during what time period?
a)
Cretaceous
b)
Triassic
c)
Jurassic
d)
Quaternary
16.
When was the largest extinction on the Earth?
a)
K-T Extinction (dinos)
b)
Permian Extinction (marine life)
c)
Armageddon 
17.
The Woolly Mammoth lived at the same time as 
a)
modern man
b)
the dinosaurs
c)
an earlier hominid