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WorksheetsLife Science, Tuesday Bell Ringer, 1.2.18
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
What divides Earth’s history into smaller intervals based on major events or changes on earth.
a)
Geologic timescale
b)
Geologic column
c)
Law of Superposition
d)
Index fossils
2.
This image shows
a)
Geologic Column
b)
Geologic Timescale
c)
Law of Superposition
d)
Mass extinction
3.
Very few fossils from the Precambrian era existed back then because
a)
fossils just do not last that long
b)
very few organisms even existed back then
c)
fossils from that era are to deep to find
d)
most organisms from tha era did not have hard body parts
4.
Some of the first animals to appear on land were
a)
salamander-like animals
b)
crawling insects
c)
cockroaches
d)
reptiles
5.
Scientists estimate the age of Earth to be about
a)
10 billion years old
b)
4.6 billion years old
c)
3.8 billion years old
d)
4.4 million years old
6.
The geologic time scale
a)
measures Earth's history
b)
helps identify unknown organisms
c)
is a species that died out
d)
is the study of Earth's crust
7.
The study of the force that moves the Earth's crust is
a)
Pangaea
b)
Plate tectonics
c)
Geologic Time Scale
d)
Taxonomy
8.
Earth formed 4.54 billion years ago, but life did not show until...
a)
3.8 billion years ago
b)
1 million years ago
c)
200,000 years ago
d)
4.5 billion years ago
9.
What was the only life present during early Earth?
a)
microbial
b)
small multicellular
c)
plant
10.
The moon formed from
a)
cheese
b)
a meteor that was captured by earths gravity
c)
the debris that was ejected when Theia collided with the early earth
d)
the earth's released atmosphere
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