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WorksheetsSCI103 Quiz # 3 (2nd Quarter)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
The era where chordates and arthropods evolved.
Cambrian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Permian
The period where dinosaurs were wiped out.
Mesozoic
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
The time where the biggest mass extinction event occurred where oxygen was removed from oceans, and desertification of land.
Cretaceous
Devonian
Permian
Triassic
This is said to be the new epoch that we are now living in.
Anthropocene
Holocene
Pleistocene
Paleocene
The principle of relative dating where younger rocks cut through the faults/fractures of preexisting rocks.
Principle of Original Horizontality
Principle of Cross-cutting Relationship
Principle of Superposition
Principle of Inclusions
Disturbance of the sequence where tilted strata overlain by a more younger and horizontal layer.
Angular Unconformity
Disconformity
Nonconformity
Paraconformity
Type of fossilization where aragonite undergoes change to form calcite.
Carbonization
Petrification
Preservation
Recrystallization
Which event cannot be determined by absolute and relative dating techniques?
Absolute age of rock material
Detailed physical characteristics
Ice Ages
Mass Extinctions
This is also known as guide fossils or a “cheat sheet” to identify fossils easily.
Absolute Dating
Relative Dating
Trace Fossils
Index Fossils
The eon where oxygen begins to accumulate in the atmosphere and means “earlier life”.
Archean
Pre-cambrian
Proterozoic
Phanerozoic
