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WorksheetsGeological Time Scale Review - Part 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What period makes up early Paleozoic era?
Permian and Carboniferous
Devonian and Silurian
Cambrian and Ordovician
Permian and Cambrian
How long did the Paleozoic era lasted?
542 Million years
291 Million years
340 Million years
251 Million years
In what period did life first appear on land?
Permian
Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian
When did fishes appear?
Early Paleozoic era
Late Paleozoic Era
Middle Paleozoic Era
How do inland seas form?
Inland seas form when ocean water floods continents
Inland seas form when ocean water becomes very hot
Inland seas form when there is lot of rains
Inland seas form when many animals want water
How did the Appalachian Mountains form? (select 2)
Due to diverging plate boundary
Due to collisions of continents
Due to collision of sea
Due to collisions of land masses
Which two geologic periods make up the Middle Paleozoic era?
Carboniferous and Permian
Silurian and Devonian
Cambrian and Ordovician
Cambrian and Permian
Which two geologic periods make up the Late Paleozoic era?
Carboniferous and Permian
Silurian and Devonian
Cambrian and Ordovician
Permian and Cambrian
Where did many of the life-forms live at the end of the Early and the beginning of the Middle Paleozoic era?
in the water
on the land
along the fringes of the continents
along the fringes of the sea
What were the dominant organisms on Earth during the middle part of the Paleozoic era and where did they live?
Dinosaurs were the dominant organisms in the Middle Paleozoic land
Fishes were the dominant organisms in the Middle Paleozoic seas
Bacteria were the dominant organisms in the Middle Paleozoic seas
Reptiles were the dominant organisms in the Middle Paleozoic
What types of organisms began to evolve on land during the middle Paleozoic era?
fishes and bacteria
Reptiles and vertebrates
amphibians and plants
Insects and small plants
Why are the Appalachian Mountains today not as high as they were during the end of the Paleozoic era?
Earth processes such as weathering and erosion have worn the range down to its current form
Earthquake have worn the range down to its current form
Volcanic erruption have worn the range down to its current form
Shaking of earth have worn the range down to its current form
Which Devonian organism is directly related to amphibians?
A
B
C
What types of organisms lived during the Carboniferous period?
grass and small trees lived on land. Bacteria and other small fish lived in the oceans
ferns, large trees, and insects lived on land. Sharks and other large fish lived in the oceans
snakes and fishes
What is the origin of the energy that is released when coal burns?
The energy is the solar energy that plants transformed into chemical energy and stored while they were alive.
The energy is the chemical energy from the minerals
The energy of is the heat energy of the earth
The energy is the atomic energy that humans transform into heat energy.
Coal Swams were found in
age of invertebrates
age of vertebrates
age of amphibians
age of machines
_____were organisms that had lungs and could breathe air.
fish
trilobites
tiktaalik
bacteria
In which period coal swarms were found
Cambrian
Ordovician
Carboniferous
Silurian
What does the fossil evidence reveal about the end of the Paleozoic era?
60% of marine life and 80% of life on land became extinct.
95% of marine life and 70% of life on land became extinct.
55% of marine life and 90% of life on land became extinct.
70% of marine life and 95% of life on land became extinct.
What was Pangaea?
Pangaea was a large continent made up of all of Earth’s present-day landmasses.
Pangaea was the 1st period of the Paleozoic Era
Pangaea was the last period of the Paleozoic Era
Pangaea is a name of an Era
