Cenozoic Life

The ______________ Era is the last and most recent of the geologic eras

• Mesozoic

• Paleozoic

• Cenozoic

• Precambrian

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The term Cenozoic means _________ life.

• Middle

• Old

• New

• Existing

The global climate was very __________ at the beginning of the Cenozoic, gradually cooling and becoming drier closer to the end of the era.

• cold

• warm

• arid

• calm

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

The Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum was a time of _____________.

• rapid mountain

  building

• global warming

• global cooling

• mass exinctions to micro-oceanic life

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

During the early Paleozoic, mammals took advantage of the extinction of the these animals to fill nearly every land niche .

• fish

• reptiles

• dinosaurs

• birds

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The Cenozoic began 65 million years ago and continued until ...

• 2 million years ago.

• 500,000 years ago.

• 1200 years ago.

• present day.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Name the three periods that make up the Cenozoic Era.

• Paleogene

• Quaternary

• Neogene

• Cretaceous

• Holocene

Click on the European and Laurentine Ice Sheets of the Pleistocene Epoch.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Click all the Marsupial and Monotreme Mammals

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Click on the Geological Time Scale on the 5 major mass extinction events

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1