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Geological Time Scale Review - Part 2

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What period makes up early Paleozoic era?

a)

Permian and Carboniferous

b)

Devonian and Silurian

c)

Cambrian and Ordovician

d)

Permian and Cambrian

2.

How long did the Paleozoic era lasted?

a)

542 Million years

b)

291 Million years

c)

340 Million years

d)

251 Million years

3.

In what period did life first appear on land?

a)

Permian

b)

Ordovician

c)

Silurian

d)

Devonian

4.

When did fishes appear?

a)

Early Paleozoic era

b)

Late Paleozoic Era

c)

Middle Paleozoic Era

5.

How do inland seas form?

a)

Inland seas form when ocean water floods continents

b)

Inland seas form when ocean water becomes very hot

c)

Inland seas form when there is lot of rains

d)

Inland seas form when many animals want water

6.

How did the Appalachian Mountains form? (select 2)

a)

Due to diverging plate boundary

b)

Due to collisions of continents

c)

Due to collision of sea

d)

Due to collisions of land masses

7.

Which two geologic periods make up the Middle Paleozoic era?

a)

Carboniferous and Permian

b)

Silurian and Devonian

c)

Cambrian and Ordovician

d)

Cambrian and Permian

8.

Which two geologic periods make up the Late Paleozoic era?

a)

Carboniferous and Permian

b)

Silurian and Devonian

c)

Cambrian and Ordovician

d)

Permian and Cambrian

9.

Where did many of the life-forms live at the end of the Early and the beginning of the Middle Paleozoic era?

a)

in the water

b)

on the land

c)

along the fringes of the continents

d)

along the fringes of the sea

10.

What were the dominant organisms on Earth during the middle part of the Paleozoic era and where did they live?

a)

Dinosaurs were the dominant organisms in the Middle Paleozoic land

b)

Fishes were the dominant organisms in the Middle Paleozoic seas

c)

Bacteria were the dominant organisms in the Middle Paleozoic seas

d)

Reptiles were the dominant organisms in the Middle Paleozoic

11.

What types of organisms began to evolve on land during the middle Paleozoic era?

a)

fishes and bacteria

b)

Reptiles and vertebrates

c)

amphibians and plants

d)

Insects and small plants

12.

Why are the Appalachian Mountains today not as high as they were during the end of the Paleozoic era?

a)

Earth processes such as weathering and erosion have worn the range down to its current form

b)

Earthquake have worn the range down to its current form

c)

Volcanic erruption have worn the range down to its current form

d)

Shaking of earth have worn the range down to its current form

13.

Which Devonian organism is directly related to amphibians?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

14.

What types of organisms lived during the Carboniferous period?

a)

grass and small trees lived on land. Bacteria and other small fish lived in the oceans

b)

ferns, large trees, and insects lived on land. Sharks and other large fish lived in the oceans

c)

snakes and fishes

15.

What is the origin of the energy that is released when coal burns?

a)

The energy is the solar energy that plants transformed into chemical energy and stored while they were alive.

b)

The energy is the chemical energy from the minerals

c)

The energy of is the heat energy of the earth

d)

The energy is the atomic energy that humans transform into heat energy.

16.

Coal Swams were found in

a)

age of invertebrates

b)

age of vertebrates

c)

age of amphibians

d)

age of machines

17.

_____were organisms that had lungs and could breathe air.

a)

fish

b)

trilobites

c)

tiktaalik

d)

bacteria

18.

In which period coal swarms were found

a)

Cambrian

b)

Ordovician

c)

Carboniferous

d)

Silurian

19.

What does the fossil evidence reveal about the end of the Paleozoic era?

a)

60% of marine life and 80% of life on land became extinct.

b)

95% of marine life and 70% of life on land became extinct.

c)

55% of marine life and 90% of life on land became extinct.

d)

70% of marine life and 95% of life on land became extinct.

20.

What was Pangaea?

a)

Pangaea was a large continent made up of all of Earth’s present-day landmasses.

b)

Pangaea was the 1st period of the Paleozoic Era

c)

Pangaea was the last period of the Paleozoic Era

d)

Pangaea is a name of an Era