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What is the record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history called?
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Geologic Time Scale
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What is the age of rock compared to the ages of the rock layers called?
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relative age
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What is the record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history called?
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What is the age of rock compared to the ages of the rock layers called?
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What is the largest intervals of geologic time? These intervals can last for 2.5 billion-540 billion years?
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What is a period of time that is associated with a particular quality, event, person, ect called? (They can last for 180-300 million years.)
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What is a subdivision of ears called? (They can last for tens of millions of years-2 million years?
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What is a period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics? (They can last for several million years.)
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What are animals that do not have a backbone?
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What are animals with a backbone called?
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What are animals that live part of its life on land and part of its life in water called?
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How long ago was Earth formed?
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What were the earliest forms of life?
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What event happened when many life forms appeared in a short amount of time?
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What are small ocean animals with two shells called?
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What are animals that do not have a backbone called?
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During the Ordovician and Silurian periods ancestors of what modern day animals started to appear?
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During the Ordovician and Silurian periods what type of fish evolved?
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What are animals with a backbone called?
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What period did the first insects appear in?
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What was the Devonian Period known as?
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During what period did animals begin to invade the land?
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What are animals that live part of its life on land and part of its life in water called?
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What is it called when many types of living things become extinct at the same time?
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How much of life disappeared after the first mass extinction?
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What animals survived the first mass extinction?
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What did we call the supercontinent?
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Pangaea never broke apart.
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What do we call the movement of the continents?
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What does "meso" mean?
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Which was not a period found in the Mesozoic Era?
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What was another name for the Mesozoic Era?
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When did the first dinosaurs appear?
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What was one of the earliest dinosaurs?
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What period did the first mammal appear?
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What is a warm-blooded vertebrate that feeds its young milk called?
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What period did dinosaurs become the dominant animal on land?
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What dinosaur was 20 meters long?
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What is one of the smallest known dinosaurs called?
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What was one of the first birds to appear during the Jurassic Period?
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What do we call a scientist who studies fossils to learn about organisms that lived long ago?
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What is the preserved remains or traces of living things called?
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During the Cretaceous Period what type of new plant evolved?
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How long ago was the second mass extinction?
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What object do scientist think caused the second extinction?
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Dinosaurs survived the second mass extinction.
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What was another name for the Cenozoic Era?
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What two periods occur during the Cenozoic Era?
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What type of climate occurred during the Tertiary Period?
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What type of marine animal evolved in the Tertiary Period?
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What period are we currently in?
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How long ago did the first human ancestors appear?
