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Geologic Time Webquest 1/14/2022

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Link for Part 1: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/gtpage1.html

Link for Part 2: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.php

Link for Part 3: https://fossils.valdosta.edu/home_time.html

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Instead of clicking on "Read More", just choose an event to describe in the Paleozoic era.

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List the period you choose from the Cenozoic era. List the type of environments that existed, describe how the continents (landmasses) appeared, and describe the fossil you choose.

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List the period you choose from the Mesozoic era. List the type of environments that existed, describe how the continents (landmasses) appeared, and describe the fossil you choose.

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List the period you choose from the Paleozoic era. List the type of environments that existed, describe how the continents (landmasses) appeared, and describe the fossil you choose.

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List the period you choose from the Precambrian era. List the type of environments that existed, describe how the continents (landmasses) appeared, and describe the fossil you choose.

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Hint: how many thousands of years would it take to read the geologic history of Earth?

A 73

D 1 million

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B 17,503

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Choose the correct order of events.

C Formation of the Earth and moon, Earliest life, "Lucy" (earliest hominid), Largest mass extinction, Early land plants, and Dinosaur extinction

A Formation of the Earth and moon, Earliest life, Early land plants, Largest mass extinction, Dinosaur extinction, and "Lucy" (earliest hominid)

B Formation of the Earth and moon, Earliest life, Largest mass extinction, Early land plants, Dinosaur extinction, and "Lucy" (earliest hominid)

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Given the events in #2, which fossil would you expect to find at the bottom of the geologic record? At the top?

A Lucy at the bottom layer, fossils of earliest life at the top layer

B Dinosaur extinction at the bottom layer, appearance of plants at the top layer

C fossils of earliest life at the bottom layer, Lucy at the top layer

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How is relative time recorded?

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A The oldest is on top and the youngest is on the bottom.

B The oldest is on the bottom and the youngest is on the top.

C The oldest is on top and the youngest is in the middle.

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What is the law of superposition?

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In section 7, which of the fossils was the oldest?

A Brachiopods

B Trilobites

C Eurypterids

D Ammonites

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A Through radiometric dating

B Through relative dating

C There is no dating in the Earth's geologic history.

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A 4.6 BYA to 750 MYA

B 4.6 BYA to 542 MYA

C 4.6 BYA to 650 MYA

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There are 3 answers.

A Earth formed

B Earliest life appeared

C Humans evolved

D Dinosaurs went extinct

E Jellyfish evolved

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A 500 MYA to 300 MYA

B 520 MYA to 250 MYA

C 540 MYA to 252 MYA

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There are 6 answers.

A Most of the land was formed into one big supercontinent.

B Forests and swamps developed

C This was the age of the dinosaurs

D The first fish and reptiles evolved

The Cambrian Explosion happened

Plants first evolved

Several mass extinctions happened

Asteroid impact caused the mass extinction that ended the Paleozoic era

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C 260 MYA to 25 MYA

A 252 MYA to 65.5 MYA

B 252 MYA to 50 MYA

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There are 4 answers.

A Dinosaurs evolved

B Mollusks appeared in the ocean

C Flowering plants evolved on land

The first direct ancestor of the human evolved

The first birds evolved

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C 70 MYA to now

A 64 MYA to 10 MYA

B 65 MYA to now

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There are 4 answers.

A The ocean cooled significantly and many species went extinct

B Some forms of dinosaurs survived the Mesozoic mass extinction

C Mammals rose up to fill the niche dinosaurs left behind

D Continents collided together again

The first grasslands evolved