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History of life

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What early earth like

a)

Nice and cool

b)

Hot and filled with toxic gas

c)

Breath able air

2.

What is the correct order

a)

Periods, eons,era

b)

Era,eons,periods

c)

Eon, periods, eras

3.

These were the first eukaryotes

(a)  

4.

What is a stromatolite made up of.

(a)  

5.

This absorbs ultraviolet radiation

(a)  

6.

Organisms began living on Earth about 3.8 billion years ago.  Then 1.2 billion years ago, ______ evolved

a)

multicellular organisms

b)

single celled organisms

c)

humans

7.
TRUE OR FALSE: The deeper the rock is in the Earth, the newer it is.
a)
True
b)
False
8.

Cyanobacteria changed the early Earth's atmosphere by giving off...

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

ammonia

c)

hydrogen

d)

oxygen

9.

Which era is the most modern and the one that we are currently living in?

a)

Cenozoic

b)

Cretaceous

c)

Permian

10.

Which of the four key principles of Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains why no two zebras have the exact same pattern of stripes?

a)

overproduction

b)

variation

c)

adaptation

11.

Humans and chimpanzees cannot be traced back to a common ancestor because humans evolved from chimpanzees.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Insects probably owe their successful number and diversity to the evolution of...

a)

legs

b)

wings

c)

vision

d)

flowers

13.

Determining the age of a rock by comparing relative proportions of its radioactive isotopes is called...

a)

radioactive decay

b)

radiometric dating

c)

isotope dating

d)

half lives

14.

Unicellular organisms are those organisms that are made up of a single cell

a)

True

b)

False

15.

What was the name of Darwin’s book in which he published his ideas about evolution and natural selection?

a)

On the Origin of Species

b)

Silent Spring

c)

Missing Marshes

16.

The extinction of species, both plant and animal, have happened regularly over the course of Earth's history.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

How can scientists determine the relative age of a fossil

a)

Radioactive Dating

b)

Compare it with fossils found in other rock layers

c)

Chemical Dating

18.

What is the cambrian explosion

4 lines
19.

What is a land bridge

a)

A bridge made by a tree

b)

A area that is safe to walk on

c)

A area between continents that allowed animals to cross

20.

What is a Ice Age

(a)