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SCI103 Quiz # 3 (2nd Quarter)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The era where chordates and arthropods evolved.

a)

Cambrian

b)

Carboniferous

c)

Devonian

d)

Permian

2.

The period where dinosaurs were wiped out.

a)

Mesozoic

b)

Triassic

c)

Jurassic

d)

Cretaceous

3.

The time where the biggest mass extinction event occurred where oxygen was removed from oceans, and desertification of land.

a)

Cretaceous

b)

Devonian

c)

Permian

d)

Triassic

4.

This is said to be the new epoch that we are now living in.

a)

Anthropocene

b)

Holocene

c)

Pleistocene

d)

Paleocene

5.

The principle of relative dating where younger rocks cut through the faults/fractures of preexisting rocks.

a)

Principle of Original Horizontality

b)

Principle of Cross-cutting Relationship

c)

Principle of Superposition

d)

Principle of Inclusions

6.

Disturbance of the sequence where tilted strata overlain by a more younger and horizontal layer.

a)

Angular Unconformity

b)

Disconformity

c)

Nonconformity

d)

Paraconformity

7.

Type of fossilization where aragonite undergoes change to form calcite.

a)

Carbonization

b)

Petrification

c)

Preservation

d)

Recrystallization

8.

Which event cannot be determined by absolute and relative dating techniques?

a)

Absolute age of rock material

b)

Detailed physical characteristics

c)

Ice Ages

d)

Mass Extinctions

9.

This is also known as guide fossils or a “cheat sheet” to identify fossils easily.

a)

Absolute Dating

b)

Relative Dating

c)

Trace Fossils

d)

Index Fossils

10.

The eon where oxygen begins to accumulate in the atmosphere and means “earlier life”.

a)

Archean

b)

Pre-cambrian

c)

Proterozoic

d)

Phanerozoic