WorksheetsHistory of the Earth
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which of the following is an example of catastrophism?
A mountain growing
A tree decomposing
An earthquake
A glacier moving
What law says that the geological processes of the past are the same as the ones happening now, and in the future?
Geology
Anthropology
Continuity
Uniformitarianism
Who developed the laws of Geology, in general?
Alfred Wegener
James Hutton
Wilbur Abernathy
Winston McBride
How did breathable oxygen get into our atmosphere?
Stromatolites and photosynthesis
Trilobites and photosynthesis
One celled organism and respiration
Trees and early grasses
What gas stops the harmful effects of UV light?
(a)
What supercontinent may have caused the Earth to turn into one big iceball?
Pangea
Gondwana
Laurentia
Rodinea
Where did water come from?
Meteors and comets
Volcanoes
Cosmic rain
If formed as granite weathered
What kind of fossil would a worm most likely become?
Cast and mold
Carbon film
Permineralization
Original remains
Bog Body
What kind of fossil is a foot print?
Cast and mold
Index
Trace
Original remains
Carbon film
How much of an element is left after 5 (1/2 lives)
1/8th
1/16th
1/32nd
1/64th
1/128th
What was the dominant life form in the Mesozoic era?
Bacterial
Fish
Mammals
Dinosaurs
Grasses
Which time was the longest?
Precambrian
Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Which of the following means "Visible Life"
Hadean
Proterozoic
Archean
Phanerozoic.
Which of these means "Hellish"?
Hadean
Archean
Phanerozoic
Proterozoic
Oldest stuff is on the bottom?
Uniformitarianism
Superposition
Crosscutting
Original Horizontality
What shows us the condition of the Earth?
Eon
Era
Period
Epoch
What tells us the dominant life forms?
Eon
Era
Period
Epoch
What ERA do humans dominate?
Precambrian
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Paleozoic
None
What caused the heating of the heating of the Early Earth?
Metor impact and solar wind
Convection currents in the mantle
Cuba
Meteor impact and radiation
Gravity
What is generally the longest?
Era
Period
Epoch
Eon
They are all the same
What does Ozone protect the Earth from?
Visible light
Gamma rays
Ultraviolet rays
Cuba
Infrared rays
What are we living in?
Archean
Hadean
Phanerzoic
Cubanozoic
Mesozoic
What type of rock was the first on Earth?
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Igneous
Dwayne Johnson
The Earth was lava and without solid form, what time was it?
Hadean
Phanerzoic
Paleozoic
Time to get into another class.
Mesozoic
Which of these was not part of the early atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Nitrogen
Water vapor
What is the most common element in the Universe?
Helium
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Suprise
What killed off the dinosaurs?
Dramatic climate change
Volcanoes
An asteroid
Mr. Monroe says all three working together, and I believe him.
What was a wonderful index fossil of the end of the Precambrian and the start of the Paleozoic?
Stromatolite
Trilobite
Humans
Paleoworms
