WorksheetsEarth's History Part 1 Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
Which of the following would you NOT expect to ever find a fossil of?
A human skeleton in a desert
Remains of a catfish in a dried up riverbed
A jellyfish in the ocean
A mammoth preserved in ice
What type of fossil is a cavity in the shape of an organism whose remains have disintegrated?
Sediment
Mold
Carbon Film
Cast
The classic Jurassic Park fossil is a mosquito trapped in an Amber Stone. What type of fossil is this?
Preserved fossil
Cast fossil
Trace Fossil
Mold Fossil
What is the current era of geologic time that we are living in right now?
Precambrian
Paleozoic Era
Mesozoic Era
Cenozoic Era
What is the earliest part of Earth’s geologic time known as?
Precambrian
Paleozoic Era
Mesozoic Era
Cenozoic Era
Invertebrates were common on Earth in the era following the Precambrian time. What is the name of the era immediately after the Precambrian?
Paleozoic Era
Mesozoic Era
Cenozoic Era
Notevenozoic Era
Scientists use what two means to determine the relative age of a fossil found?
Half-life monitoring and Uniformitarianism
Superposition and Superguessing
Rock layers and Carbonite dating
Index fossils and Rock layers
This term means the oldest rock layer is found at the bottom of a section of crust while the youngest layer is found at the top of a section of crust.
Gradient aging
Relativism
Superposition
Fossilization
What was the dominant lifeform during the Mesozoic era?
Invertebrates
Reptiles (dinosaurs)
Mammals
Birds
What was the dominant lifeform during the Paleozoic era?
Invertebrates
Reptiles (dinosaurs)
Mammals
Birds
What is the dominant lifeform during the Cenozoic era?
Invertebrates
Reptiles
Mammals
Birds
What are preserved remains of living organisms or preserved traces of an organism's presence in Earth’s history called?
Fossils
Traits
Adaptations
Eras
What types of structures usually fossilize from organisms in Earth’s past?
Soft structures such as organs and muscles
Large structures such as skin
Hard structures such as bone and teeth
All structures usually fossilize from organisms
What is the current era, period, and epoch that we are currently living in?
Paleozoic era, cambrian period, nolocene epoch
Mesozoic era, jurassic period, pterosaurene epoch
Cenozoic era, tertiary period, pliocene epoch
Cenozoic era, quaternary period, holocene epoch
What major event happened at the end of the Cenozoic Era?
The Cenozoic Era ended with an increase in the diversity of lifeforms.
The Cenozoic Era ended with a mass extinction of 90% of all species.
The Cenozoic Era ended with a mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
The Cenozoic Era has not ended at this time.
