Division of Geological Time

Question 1

Is the time when new classes and orders of organisms have evolved to entirely different forms compared to those in the cambrian period

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Ordovician Period

Question 2

It was in this eon that Earth’s continental and oceanic crust began to solidify

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Hadean Eon

Question 3

The quaternary Period from 1.8 mya - present which includes Pleistocene to the recent time. Which is called

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Holocene

Question 4

In the ordovician period, characterized by their lack of jaw, being armored and having no fins

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agnathans

Question 5

Condwana moved to the Southern Hemisphere while the smaller continents almost converged at the Northern Hemisphere

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Carboniferous Period

Question 6

The end of Creteceous period marked the best-known mass extinction referred to as

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K/T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) Extinction

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This sudden explosion of living organisms during this period is referred as the Cambrian explosion

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Cambrian Period

Question 8

During this eon, Earth was molten planet

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Hadean Eon

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The scope of this was separated into eons, era, period, and epochs

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Geologic Time

Question 10

Periods in the Phanerozoic Era

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Cambrian Period
Ordovician Period
Silurian Period
Devonian Period
Permian Period
Triassic Period
Jurassic Period
Cretaceous Period

Question 11

formed a single world contingent called

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Pangea

Question 12

The Geologic Time was separated into

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eons, era, period, and epochs

Question 13

Anthracosaurs which appeared late in this period

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Permian period

Question 14

the evolution of the jawed and finned marine vertebrates called

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gnathostomes

Question 15

plants that are less than 10 centimeters high appeared

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Silurian Period

Question 16

multicellularity is evidenced by the fossils of diverse algae and soft-bodied invertebrates which either crawl or stood on the sea floor

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Ediacaran Period

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Small plants have pore- bearing structures called

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Sporangia

Question 18

How many mya did the deep freeze last in series of global ice ages

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750 and 600 mya

Question 19

The Phanerozoic Eon was divided into (era)

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Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, and Cenozoic Era

Question 20

a marine reptile with a dolphin-like appearance

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Ichthyosaurs

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Synapsids gave rise to the therapsids called

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mama- like reptiles

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Pangea separated into two subcontinents

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Laurasia at the Northern Hemisphere and Gondwana at the Southern Hemisphere
(mesozoic)

Question 23

In the ordovician period, Marine mammals are either

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epifaunal and infaunal

Question 24

Began after the formation of the Earth’s crust, atmosphere, and seas

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Archean Eon

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lasted for about half a billion years, animals have existed and diversified on Earth after a deep freeze in series of global ice ages between 750 and 600 mya

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Phanerozoic Eon

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classified as either amphibians or reptile appeared

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anthracosaurs

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Geological Timeline: Eons

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Hadean Eon
Archean Eon
Proterozoic Eon
Phanerozoic Eon

Question 28

the different body plans of animals evolved about this time

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blueprint

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characterized by the accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere

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Proterozoic Eon

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In the mesozoic era, there were two episodes of extinction called

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end-permian mass extinction

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the first known amniotes called

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captorhinomorphs

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record that depicts Earth’s history and the order of life forms from 2500 million years ago (mya) to the present

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The Geologic Time Scale

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The Cenozoic era, divided into

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Paleogene period and Neogene period

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These grazers and suspension feeders or scavengers are called the

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Edicaran fauna

Question 35

Mosses, liverworts, and tracheophytes evolved from the marine green algae called

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Chlorophyta