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WorksheetsQuiz on Earth's History and Life
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 11mins
How long have modern humans been around?
200,000 years
2 million years
500,000 years
1 million years
When did simple, single-celled organisms first appear in the oceans?
3.8 billion years ago
541 million years ago
470 million years ago
200,000 years ago
What percentage of marine species were wiped out during the first major mass extinction event?
85%
50%
70%
95%
Around what time did life begin in the 24-hour day analogy of Earth's history?
4 am
6 am
8 am
10 am
When did the earliest land plants take root?
470 million years ago
541 million years ago
3.8 billion years ago
200,000 years ago
What significant event occurred around 360 million years ago?
The first appearance of modern humans
The land was home to early four-legged animals
Dinosaurs first appeared
A huge asteroid crashed into Earth
When did dinosaurs first appear on Earth?
500 million years ago
360 million years ago
245 million years ago
65 million years ago
What event is described as taking us up to 11:40 pm in the timeline?
The appearance of modern humans
The extinction of dinosaurs
A huge asteroid crashing into Earth
The first appearance of mammals
How long ago did most of the species we know today appear?
500 million years ago
245 million years ago
65 million years ago
360 million years ago
What does the document suggest about human existence in the timeline of Earth's history?
It spans most of Earth's history
It is a brief moment in the timeline
It began 500 million years ago
It is the longest period in Earth's history
Reorder the following
earth's age is
4.6 billion year
age of simple, single cell organisms
3.8 billion years
age of Jelly fish, trillobites and fishes
541 million years
age of earliest land plants
470 million years
ist major mass extinction
450 million years
life began in the ocean with simple single celled organisms
true
false
modern human have been on earth for a very long time
true
false
four legged land animals lived
360 mya
3.8 bya
541 mya
470 mya
Reorder the following events if the history of earth is protrayed in a day (24 hours)
Reorder the following events if the history of earth is protrayed in a day (24 hours). These events happened after the first mass extinction
