Download geologic history Practice Test

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Geologic History Practice Test
-Geologic Time table is on the test (Just like the first quiz you took)
-NO WORD BANK for the fill-INS
-85% of the test questions will come from your notes you took in class
-Geologic time table lab
-You will have to Identify FOSSILS (look at the fossils on the table) know there name,
type of preservation, if its direct or indirect.
-Relative dating problem (putting rock layers in order)
-Doing this practice will help you for the test, but doing this review alone will not
prepare you completely for the test. These are just example questions.
Multiple Choice Examples– pick the best answer and write it on the line (2 pts. each).
____ 1. Which of the following represents the least expanse of time?
a. Mesozoic b. Cenozoic c. Paleozoic d. Precambrian
____ 2. Each continent contains large “core areas” of Precambrian rocks referred to as:
a. rifts
b. plates
c. plateaus
d. boundaries e. none of these
____ 3. This epoch means present time?
a. Pleistocene b. Paleocene c. Paleozoic d. Holocene
e. Pliocene
____ 4. Fossil Fuels (coal) are abundant from what era of rocks?
a. pre-cambrian
b. Paleozoic c. Mesozoic d. Cenozoic
____ 5. Place the Era’s in the correct order (oldest to youngest).
a. Pre-Cambrian, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Paleozoic
b. Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Pre – Cambrian
c. Pre Cambrian, Paleozoic, Cenozoic, Mesozoic
d. Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Pre-Cambrian
e. None of these
True/False Examples
1._____Fossil fuels(coal, natural gas, oil) formed in the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian.
2._____The law of superposition is used in relative dating.
3._____Mammals replaced retiles as the dominant land animals in the Cenozoic Era.
4._____The first true terrestrial land animals were the mammals.
5._____The Earth’s original atmosphere was similar to the present atmosphere.
Fill – IN Examples
1.______________What is the nickname for the Eurypterid?
2.______________What is the oldest fossilized plant algae called?
3.______________What type of preservation occurred at the La Brea Tar Pits?
4.______________What period was the age of the fish?
5.______________Which period has 5 epochs?
6.______________What Era were dinosaurs common in?
7.______________What national park contains many fossils for the Tertiary period?
8.______________During what period did dinosaurs extinction occur?
Matching Examples
1._____Preserved by freezing
2._____Occurs in caves
3._____Sill lilly
4._____Cartilage Fish
5._____first Dinosaur
6._____Twig like colonial marine animal
7._____Changing bones to minerals
a) Bryozoans
b) petrification
c) crinoids
d) shark
e) ammonite
f) Diplodocus
g) woolly mammoth
h) dessication
I) Thecodont
Short Answer Examples
1) List 4 possible causes for dinosaur extinction?
a.
b.
c.
d.
2) What is the difference between direct and indirect fossilization?
3) What is the difference between relative and absolute time?
4) List and Describe four giant mammals from the Quaternary period?
a.
b.
c.
d.
5) List the 2 possible advantages that mammals have over reptiles (3 pts).
1.
2.
6) Convert the following years before present into the proper scale (cm) (8 pts.).
1 Brillion = 1 meter 10 million years = 1 centimeter
1 million years = 1 millimeter
4.6 Billon years (age of the earth) =__________________cm
600 million years (Early Sponges) =__________________cm
417 million years (Devonian starts) =__________________cm
3.5 million years (oldest humans) =___________________cm
1931 years (Pompeii) =______________________________cm
41 years (Man lands on the moon) =___________________cm
7) If plants appeared in the rock record 3.2 Billion years ago and the earth is 4.6 Billion
year old. What is the fraction of geologic time in which the earth was apparently without
an form of algae, plant, or animal? You must show your work to receive credit! (4
pts.).
8) Why are the descriptions of battles between humans and dinosaurs incorrect?