Module one

Question 1

a relative dating method that focuses on using fossilised organisms to date

Answer 1

biostratigraphy

Question 2

Dinosaurs were alive in the ____ era

Answer 2

mesozoic

Question 3

T/F - MOSASAURS are dinosaurs

Answer 3

f

Question 4

t/f - reptiles who fly in the air are dinosaurs (pterosaurs)

Answer 4

f

Question 5

dinosaurs came to be in early _____ period and went extinct in ____ period of the ____ era

Answer 5

triassic, cretaceous, mesozoic

Question 6

first protozoa (cell of life) appeared ____ ma

Answer 6

750

Question 7

first organisms with bilateral symmetry appeared ____ MA in the late _____

Answer 7

550, proterozoic period/eon

Question 8

mpst modern phyla started to appear in the fossil record during the ___ ___

Answer 8

cambrian explosion

Question 9

possess a notochord, dorsal nerve cord, pharangyal gill slits , post anal tail and bilateral symmetry (haikouichthys) - vertibrates

Answer 9

phylum chordata

Question 10

pangea formes in the ____ ___ period

Answer 10

late triassic

Question 11

pangea separates in 2 large continents (_____ and _____) in the _____ ____ period

Answer 11

gondwana, laurasia, late jurassic