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History of the Earth

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is an example of catastrophism?

a)

A mountain growing

b)

A tree decomposing

c)

An earthquake

d)

A glacier moving

2.

What law says that the geological processes of the past are the same as the ones happening now, and in the future?

a)

Geology

b)

Anthropology

c)

Continuity

d)

Uniformitarianism

3.

Who developed the laws of Geology, in general?

a)

Alfred Wegener

b)

James Hutton

c)

Wilbur Abernathy

d)

Winston McBride

4.

How did breathable oxygen get into our atmosphere?

a)

Stromatolites and photosynthesis

b)

Trilobites and photosynthesis

c)

One celled organism and respiration

d)

Trees and early grasses

5.

What gas stops the harmful effects of UV light?

(a)  

6.

What supercontinent may have caused the Earth to turn into one big iceball?

a)

Pangea

b)

Gondwana

c)

Laurentia

d)

Rodinea

7.

Where did water come from?

a)

Meteors and comets

b)

Volcanoes

c)

Cosmic rain

d)

If formed as granite weathered

8.

What kind of fossil would a worm most likely become?

a)

Cast and mold

b)

Carbon film

c)

Permineralization

d)

Original remains

e)

Bog Body

9.

What kind of fossil is a foot print?

a)

Cast and mold

b)

Index

c)

Trace

d)

Original remains

e)

Carbon film

10.

How much of an element is left after 5 (1/2 lives)

a)

1/8th

b)

1/16th

c)

1/32nd

d)

1/64th

e)

1/128th

11.

What was the dominant life form in the Mesozoic era?

a)

Bacterial

b)

Fish

c)

Mammals

d)

Dinosaurs

e)

Grasses

12.

Which time was the longest?

a)

Precambrian

b)

Paleozoic

c)

Mesozoic

d)

Cenozoic

13.

Which of the following means "Visible Life"

a)

Hadean

b)

Proterozoic

c)

Archean

d)

Phanerozoic.

14.

Which of these means "Hellish"?

a)

Hadean

b)

Archean

c)

Phanerozoic

d)

Proterozoic

15.

Oldest stuff is on the bottom?

a)

Uniformitarianism

b)

Superposition

c)

Crosscutting

d)

Original Horizontality

16.

What shows us the condition of the Earth?

a)

Eon

b)

Era

c)

Period

d)

Epoch

17.

What tells us the dominant life forms?

a)

Eon

b)

Era

c)

Period

d)

Epoch

18.

What ERA do humans dominate?

a)

Precambrian

b)

Mesozoic

c)

Cenozoic

d)

Paleozoic

e)

None

19.

What caused the heating of the heating of the Early Earth?

a)

Metor impact and solar wind

b)

Convection currents in the mantle

c)

Cuba

d)

Meteor impact and radiation

e)

Gravity

20.

What is generally the longest?

a)

Era

b)

Period

c)

Epoch

d)

Eon

e)

They are all the same

21.

What does Ozone protect the Earth from?

a)

Visible light

b)

Gamma rays

c)

Ultraviolet rays

d)

Cuba

e)

Infrared rays

22.

What are we living in?

a)

Archean

b)

Hadean

c)

Phanerzoic

d)

Cubanozoic

e)

Mesozoic

23.

What type of rock was the first on Earth?

a)

Sedimentary

b)

Metamorphic

c)

Igneous

d)

Dwayne Johnson

24.

The Earth was lava and without solid form, what time was it?

a)

Hadean

b)

Phanerzoic

c)

Paleozoic

d)

Time to get into another class.

e)

Mesozoic

25.

Which of these was not part of the early atmosphere?

a)

Carbon dioxide

b)

Methane

c)

Nitrogen

d)

Water vapor

26.

What is the most common element in the Universe?

a)

Helium

b)

Hydrogen

c)

Oxygen

d)

Suprise

27.

What killed off the dinosaurs?

a)

Dramatic climate change

b)

Volcanoes

c)

An asteroid

d)

Mr. Monroe says all three working together, and I believe him.

28.

What was a wonderful index fossil of the end of the Precambrian and the start of the Paleozoic?

a)

Stromatolite

b)

Trilobite

c)

Humans

d)

Paleoworms