Geology Quiz

Question 1

What are the Eras of geologic time?

Answer 1

Precambrian (oldest)
Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic (now)

Question 2

Segments of geologic time

Answer 2

Eons (longest)
Eras
Periods
Epochs (shortest)

Question 3

When was the Precambrian time?

Answer 3

4.6 bya to 543 mya

Question 4

What were the eons of Precambrian time?

Answer 4

Hadean
Archean
Proterozoic

Question 5

Key events in Precambrian time

Answer 5

1st life (prokaryotes)
Eukaryotes
Algae

Question 6

What caused the end of Precambrian time?

Answer 6

Explosion of invertebrates

Question 7

When was the Paleozoic era?

Answer 7

543 mya to 248 mya

Question 8

What was the nickname for the Paleozoic era?

Answer 8

Age of the invertebrates

Question 9

What were the 6 periods of the Paleozoic?

Answer 9

Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian
Carboniferous 
Permian

Question 10

Key events of the Paleozoic era

Answer 10

1st fishes, vertebrates, land plants, conifers, insects, amphibians

Glaciers

Appalachian mountains formed

Warm seas

Question 11

What marked the end of Paleozoic time?

Answer 11

90% life wiped out by mass extinction

Question 12

What is the nickname of the Mesozoic era?

Answer 12

Age of dinosaurs

Question 13

Time range for Mesozoic era

Answer 13

248mya to 65 mya

Question 14

Periods of the Mesozoic era

Answer 14

Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous

Question 15

Major events of the Mesozoic

Answer 15

1st mammals, Pangea breaks up, 1st birds, dinosaurs dominate, Rocky Mountains appear, flowering plants

Question 16

What marked the end of the Mesozoic era?

Answer 16

Volcanic eruption, 65% mass extinction

Question 17

What was the nickname of the Cenozoic era?

Answer 17

Age of mammals

Question 18

What was the time range for Cenozoic era?

Answer 18

65 mya to now

Question 19

What are the periods of the Cenozoic era?

Answer 19

Tertiary

Quaternary

Question 20

Major events of the Cenozoic era?

Answer 20

Apps and Himalayas form, ice age,Grand Canyon forms, humans evolve, angiosperm dominate

Question 21

Spontaneous Generation

Answer 21

Nonliving things could form into life

Question 22

What three people aided in the disproving of spontaneous generation?

Answer 22

Redi, Pastuer, spallazanni

Question 23

What did Francesco Redi do?

Answer 23

Experiment with 3 meat jars.
One open, one cheesecloth, one cap
Maggots

Question 24

What did Louis Pastuer do?

Answer 24

Used broth and gooseneck flasks
Say for months
He turned them, they spoiled

Question 25

Biogenesis

Answer 25

Life must start life

Question 26

What did Alex Oparin hypothesize?

Answer 26

Organic soup theory Early earth, lots of chemicals, charges Formed into simple genetics and proteins Protocell, Cell, life

Question 27

Who backed up Oparin?

Answer 27

Miller and Urey

Question 28

What did Miler and Urey prove?

Answer 28

Proved Oparins claim plausible | Took chemicals, shot lightening through them, collected soup, found nucleic acids

Question 29

What is the current geologic time?

Answer 29

Eon: Fanozoic Era: Cenozoic Period: quaternary Epoch: Holocene

Question 30

Procaryote organism that lived in harsh environments

Answer 30

Acheobacteria

Question 31

What is endosymbiosis?

Answer 31

Prokaryotic cells, multiple of them, live in each other, combine, became reliant, turned into eukaryotes

Question 32

How did earliest autotrophs make their own food?

Answer 32

Made glucose by chemosynthesis

Question 33

Trace fossil

Answer 33

Footprint

Question 34

Cast fossil

Answer 34

Looks like actual object Minerals in 3D shape of object

Question 35

Mold Fossil

Answer 35

Something pushed in | Impression (hand in sand)

Question 36

Original remains

Answer 36

Actual item Can be froze, stuck in amber, didn’t form Chances are slim

Question 37

Petrified remains

Answer 37

Rock that looks like the object | Mineral overtake and replace object

Question 38

Carbonaceous film fossil

Answer 38

Outline of original item Item presses and leaves carbon imprint