Geologic History Exit Ticket

Which two New York State locations have surface

bedrock of similar ages?

• Mt. Marcy and Slide Mt.

• Buffalo and Rochester

• Old Forge and Niagara Falls

• Watertown and Albany

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Based on fossil evidence, which pie graph best shows

the percentage of time that humans have existed on

Earth since the time of Earth's origin?

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At the end of which geologic time period were the

continents of South America and Africa joined

together and entirely located south of the equator?

• Paleogene Period

• Jurassic Period

• Permian Period

• Devonian Period

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Geologic history is divided into eras, periods, and

epochs based on the

• Type of rock deposited at different times throughout history

• half-life of radioactive isotopes found in rocks

• inferred movements of Earth's landmasses

• fossil evidence found in bedrock

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The timeline below represents the entire geologic history of Earth. The lettered dots on the timeline

represent events in Earth's history.

• A

• B

• C

• D

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Which group of organisms are found only as fossils

today?

• vascular plants

• brachiopods

• nautiloids

• placoderm fish

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Which group of living organisms survived all five major mass extinctions?

• ammonoids

• brachiopods

• graptolites

• trilobites

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Oxygen in Earth's early atmosphere was first

produced during the Precambrian from

• cyanobacteria in Earth's oceans

• volcanic activity along plate boundaries

• the absorption of sunlight by plants

• evaporation of ocean water

The mass extinction of the dinosaurs, approximately

65.5 million years ago, is inferred by most scientists

to have been caused by

• a large energy surge from the surface of the Sun

• the occurrence of a major ice age

• an impact event occurring on Earth's surface

• earthquakes occurring along crustal plate

  boundaries

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The geologic epoch when the Columbia River Basalts is called

(a)