Geological Time Periods
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- Q1
The Quaternary period is during the _____ Era.
Holocene
Calabrian
Cenozoic
Pleistocene
30s - Q2
The catastrophe at the end of the Pleistocene period that destroyed 2/3 of large mammals in North and South America.
Young Divas
Younger Dryas
Haley's Comet
Asteroid rain
30s - Q3
The origin of the Hadean period comes from
Haliae
Hermes
Heliades
Hades
30s - Q4
Which one of the four eras is from Archaen?
Neoarchean
Ludlow
Lopingian
Furongian
30s - Q5
Which of the following is the oldest period?
Proterozoic
Quarternary
Hadean
Cambrian
30s - Q6
The end of the Archaen period was how many billions of years ago?
1.5 billion years ago
3.5 billion years ago
4.5 billion years ago
2.5 billion years ago
30s - Q7
Proterozoic period contained the first ...
volcanoes
oxygen dependent complex organisms
organized fire
water droplets
30s - Q8
The Proterozoic was _____ and _____ were spreading all over, there was more oxygen than before.
cold and glaciers
cold and asteroids
hot and fires
temperate and animals
30s - Q9
The Carboniferous Pennsylvanian period ended how many millions of years ago?
100 mya
500 mya
298.9 mya
1 mya
30s - Q10
The Carboniferous Pennsylvanian period originated from ...
large oceans of water
large underground coal deposits
large underground caves
large mountain ranges
30s - Q11
The Himalayan mountains were formed during the Paleogene period from what event?
Asteroid crashing into Earth
Australia separating from Antarctica
India crashing into Asia
Glaciers covering Antarctica
30s - Q12
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was caused by a(n)...
volcano
star
glacier
asteroid
30s - Q13
The origin for the Jurassic period is derived from . . .
Jura - a Celtic root
Jura - a mountainous region
Jura - a group of people
Jura - Greek root
30s - Q14
Dinosaurs, birds, and rodents existed during the Jurassic time period.
True
False
30s - Q15
Triassic originates from the word . . .
triass - Latin
tris - French
trias - German
tri - Hungarian
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