Paleozoic

Match the following Ordovician fossils

• mollusk

• 
• crinoid

• 
• bryozoan

• 
• brachiopod

• 
• trilobite

• 

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What period do we see the first macrofossils of moss forests and millipedes on land?

• Silurian

• Devonian

• Permian

• Ordovician

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Placoderms (armored fish) diversified in what period?

• Devonian

• Silurian

• Ordovician

• Permian

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Tiktaalik, an animal with a blend of gills, scales fins AND lungs evolved

during this period.

• Devonian

• Silurian

• Ordovician

• Permian

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Along with insects, this period is known as the age of amphibians.

• Carboniferous

• Devonian

• Permian

• Silurian

The large coal beds of West Virginia came from vast forests of this period.

• Carboniferous

• Silurian

• Permian

• Devonian

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The Dimetrodon is classified as a dinosaur.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

At the end of this period 95% of all species went extinct.

• Permian

• Devonian

• Carboniferous

• Cambrian

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The greatest extinction in the history of earth is called

• the great dying

• The big extinction

• armageddon of

  animals

• greatest extinction in the history of earth is called the K-T event.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The popular fossil trilobite finally went extinct during this period

• Permian

• Devonian

• Cambrian

• Silurian

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1