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Mass Extinction 8th grade

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is mass extinction?

a)

when dogs will go extinct

b)

when different plants and animals go extinct because of natural disasters or human activity

c)

having different animals all together in one place

d)

when the world will end

2.

How many types of Mass Extinction have there been so far?

a)

3

b)

1

c)

9

d)

5

3.

What are the 5 different names of the extinctions that have already happened?

a)

Ordovician, Devonian, Nucleal, Permian, Triassic-Jurassic, Cretaceous-Tertiary

b)

Devonian, Ordovician, Permian, Triassic-Jurassic, Cretaceous-Tertiary

c)

Nucleal, Ordovician, Triassic-Jurassic, Cretaceous-Tertiary, Permian

d)

Permian, Nucleal, Triassic-Jurassic, Cretaceous-Tertiary, Ordovician

4.

What happened during the Ordovician Mass Extinction?

a)

Dinosaurs were killed by asteroids

b)

Small marine organisms died out

c)

Many tropical species went extinct

d)

All plant organisms were wiped out

5.

How many years ago did the Permian-triassic Extinction happen?

a)

around 250 million years ago

b)

around 365 million years ago

c)

around 65 million years ago

d)

6 years ago

6.

What cause the Triassic-jurassic Extinction to happen?

a)

Asteroids hit earth

b)

Huge and widespread volcanic eruptions

c)

The fish species grew which cause multiple land and marine species to die

d)

Plastic in the ocean

7.

What happened during the Devonian Extinction?

a)

Small marine organisms died out

b)

All plant life was wiped out in the pacific ocean

c)

Many tropical marine species were wiped out because of plate tectonics and sea levels changing

d)

The dinosaurs went extinct

8.

What happened during the Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction?

a)

the species of dodo birds went extinct

b)

many small organisms died off

c)

all marine life died

d)

there was a die off of dinosaurs and other species

9.

What species went extinct during the ice age?

a)

lions

b)

dodo birds

c)

mammoths

d)

ostrich

10.

What cause the Devonian Extinction?

a)

asteroid impacts

b)

Deforestation

c)

Marine life taking over

d)

Mammoths eating everything