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History of Life Unit 2.1 Test Review

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the approximate age of the Earth?

a)

4.5 thousand years

b)

4.5 million years

c)

4.5 billion years

d)

4.5 trillion years

2.

Which explains why oxygen was absent from Earth's early atmosphere?

a)

excess heat converted atmospheric oxygen into other gases

b)

oxygen chemically combined with newly formed rocks

c)

photosynthesizing organism such as plants had not yet appeared

d)

volcanic gases suppressed the natural production of oxygen

3.

Which gas most likely was not part of Earth's early atmosphere?

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

hydrogen cyanide

c)

nitrogen

d)

oxygen

4.

What is the name of the first eon in Earth's history?

a)

cenozoic era

b)

mesozoic era

c)

paleozoic era

d)

precambrian

5.

During which time period of Earth's history did mammals become more abundant on land?

a)

tertiary period

b)

jurassic period

c)

mesozoic era

d)

precambrian

6.

Which time period did dinosaurs first emerge in?

a)

Jurassic

b)

Triassic

c)

Precambrian

d)

Paleozoic era

7.

Preserved the body parts of a mosquito in tree sap is called what type of fossil?

a)

amber fossil

b)

cast fossil

c)

petrified fossil

d)

mold fossil

8.

Created an impression of an extinct trilobite.

a)

amber fossil

b)

cast fossil

c)

trace fossil

d)

petrified fossil

9.

Preserved a line formed in wet sand by a dinosaur dragging its tail.

a)

amber fossil

b)

trace fossil

c)

mold fossil

d)

petrified fossil

10.

A tree trunk that has slowly been filled in with minerals such as calcium, petrifying the wood.

a)

amber fossil

b)

cast fossil

c)

mold fossil

d)

petrified fossil

11.

Which of the following best describes the Paleozoic era?

a)

no life emerges during this time

b)

the first life emerges on land

c)

living things becoming nonliving

d)

fish leave the sea

12.

Which era does the Earth form and the first life forms appear?

a)

mesozoic era

b)

cenozoic era

c)

precambrian

13.

Mammals appear in which period?

a)

silurian

b)

devonian

c)

triassic

14.

Humans appear during which period?

a)

quarternary

b)

cretaceous

c)

permian

15.

A scientist who travels to Argentina to explore a field of newly discovered dinosaur bones is called ___________.

a)

geologic time scale

b)

paleontologist

c)

biologist

d)

biogenesis

16.

A one million-year-old layer of sandstone lying on top of a 1.5 million-year-old layer of granite is an example of the _________________.

a)

geologic time scale

b)

law of superposition

c)

biogenesis

d)

paleontologist

17.

The model that expresses the major geological and biological events during Earth's history is called the ____________.

a)

paleontologist

b)

geologic time scale

c)

law of superposition

d)

biogenesis

18.

What geologic time period are we currently in?

a)

geologic time scale

b)

law of superposition

c)

quarternary period

d)

paleontologist

19.

Which describes what scientists think the conditions of Earth were like 4.5 billion years ago?

a)

liquid rocks with no atmosphere being bombarded with radation

b)

molten planet surrounded by a thick atmosphere of toxic gases

c)

think-rock crust surrounding a molten core with a thin atmosphere

d)

volcanic landscape surrounding a molten core with no atmosphere

20.

Which was the original source of atmospheric oxygen?

a)

photosynthetic bacteria

b)

cooling of Earth's crust

c)

formation of the oceans

d)

volcanoes

21.

Which fossil will reveal the skin color of a 90 million year old frog?

a)

amber fossil

b)

cast fossil

c)

mold fossil

d)

petrified fossil

22.

A mass extinction that included the disappearance of dinosaur species occurred during which period?

a)

triassic

b)

cretaceous

c)

jurassic

d)

precambrian

23.

Most scientists agree that...

a)

all living things today share common ancestry with earlier and simpler life-forms.

b)

bacteria is younger than humans

c)

the sea could not support life

d)

dinosaurs are still living

24.

What are radioactive isotopes?

a)

CO2

b)

unstable isotopes

c)

decaying organic matter

d)

stable elements like oxygen

25.

Preserved evidence of an organism is called ________.

a)

Paleontologist

b)

fossil

c)

periods

d)

Pasteur

26.

The use of radioactive potassium-40 to date a granite rock fragment is called _______.

a)

plate tectonics

b)

Pasteur

c)

radiometric dating

d)

periods

27.

Eras are divided into lengths of time called _________.

a)

periods

b)

Pasteur

c)

plate tectonics

d)

fossil

28.

The theory that the continents are drifting on large plates across Earth's surface is called ____________.

a)

plate tectonics

b)

Paleontologist

c)

periods

d)

fossil

29.

Where did the gases that make up the atmosphere most likely come from?

a)

volcanoes

b)

the sea

c)

space

d)

paleontologists