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WorksheetsEras quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
How were the Great Lakes created?
Wind
Glaciers
Dinosaurs digging
Pangaea
What is the correct order of eras, from oldest to youngest?
Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic
Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Paleozoic
Paleozoic, Cenozoic, Mesozoic
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
The EARLY Paleozoic Era was known as:
the Cambrian Explosion of lifeforms.
the Age of Reptiles.
the Precambrian Eon.
the KT event.
Which of the following DID NOT occur during the Paleozoic Era?
Small mammals came out of their burrows to find that the dinosaurs were gone.
The first appearance of life-forms with hard parts such as shells.
Insects and plants moved onto land.
Large tropical swamps in the Pennsylvanian period became the major coal deposits of today.
The supercontinent of Pangaea existed during part of the the Mesozoic era.
True
False
The asteroid (or comet) that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs struck the Earth in which of the following locations?
off the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
in modern-day Arizona
in what is now South Africa
in the Siberian region of present-day Russia
Which of the following types of organisms benefited the most from the extinction of the dinosaurs?
birds and mammals
fishes and invertebrates
flowering plants and ferns
trilobites and cephalopods
The Cenozoic Era contained all of the following EXCEPT:
velociraptor
whales
mammoths
rhinoceros
What is North America's only natural marsupial?
Opposum
White tailed deer
Kangaroo
Humans
What is the geological era in which the dinosaurs reigned?
The Paleozoic
The Mesozoic
The Proterozoic
The Cenozoic
In which era do we currently live?
Jurassic
Mesozoic
Paleozoic
Cenozoic
1 Paleozoic
2 Cenozoic
3 Precambrian
4 Mesozoic
Which period begins the Paleozoic Era?
Triassic
Jurassic
Cambrian
Quaternary
