WorksheetsHistory of Earth - St. Maria Goretti Part 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
1. Using the geologic time scale, how can you describe the time period at present?
Phanerozoic - Mesozoic - Cretaceous - Late
Phanerozoic - Paleozoic - Permian - Late
Phanerozoic - Cenozoic - Tertiary - Holocene
Phanerozoic - Cenozoic - Quaternary - Holocene
Which time period in the geologic time scale comprises more than 80% of Earth's history?
Precambrian
Archean
Phanerozoic
Hadean
Which eon is associated with profound changes in life on Earth?
Archean
Cambrian
Hadean
Phanerozoic
Which principle of relative dating uses the arrangement of rock layers in determining their relative age?
Cross Cutting Relationships
Original Horizontality
Inclusion
Superposition
Which principle of relative dating posits that rock layers that are deformed must have experienced too much pressure?
Cross Cutting Relationships
Inclusion
Original Horizontality
Superposition
What kind of unconformity is shown in the image?
Angular Conformity
Disconformity
Nonconformity
Intrusion
Which of the following describes absolute dating? Choose all the correct answers.
It finds the specific age of objects.
It explains the environmental conditions that happened before.
It uses the observable properties of objects to determine their age.
It describes the sequence of events that happened in the geologic past.
Very simple organisms survived during precambrian eon. What absolute dating technique is used to determine the age of these organisms?
Radiocarbon Dating
Potassium-Argon Dating
Uranium-Lead Dating
Luminescence
If you want to know the diet of a certain organism, which type of fossil formation are you going to investigate?
Molds and Cast
Carbonization
Trace Fossil
Permineralization
By studying the fossils of mammals, it was discovered that mammals are the most advanced organisms. At what particular time period did mammals start to exist?
Cambrian
Jurassic
Permian
Paleogene
