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When would a time traveler most likely get eaten by a bird

• Era

• Mesozoic

• Geozonic

• That darn bird

• Malozenipihia

Was there ever a point with large animal diversity

• No

• I am a cool kid

• I don’t know

• Yes

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Which is the definition for geological

• The study of our earth

• The science of our earths events

• The opposite of not

A scientist finds the bones of a dinosaur. What could help the scientist determine the approximate age of the dinosaur bones

• the birds living in the area of the bones

• the weather conditions in the area of the bones

• the kinds of trees living in the area of the bones

• the index fossils in the area of the bones

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Index fossils help us determine the age of something. They are used because: (THERE ARE TWO ANSWERS)

• They lived for a short period of time

• They are widely distributed

• They lived for a long period of time

• They lived in only one area

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Relative dating gives me:

• Exact age

• Tells me if something is younger or older than something else

• Is only used to determine the age of fossils from 1 million years ago

What era did mammals form?

• Paleozoic Era

• Cenozoic Era

• Mesozoic Era

What is the geologic time scale?

• record of the major events in Earth’s history as well as a documentation of the diverse species through the different eras.

• a timeline of the Precambrian Era

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The fossils of organisms that were widely distributed but only lived during a short period of time are called

• trace fossils

• petrified fossils

• index fossils

used to divide earth's loooong history into manageable parts 

• fossil record
• geologic time scale
• radioactive dating
• absolute dating

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