History of Life

Which type of rock is the only type to lead to fossilization?

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

• Deciduous

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The remains of the Archaeopteryx is an example of fossilized remains that exhibit some traits of ancestral organisms and some traits of organisms that are more current. This is known as a(n):

• Fossil Lineage

• Transitional Fossil

• Common Fossil

• Ancient Fossilogical target

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Which time period ended with the Terminal extinction of 75% of all species due to a massive meteor impact around the Yucatan peninsula that led to a mass uplift of debris blanketing the Earth along with global volcanic activity?

• Cretaceous

• Permian

• Quaternary

• Tertiary

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Which time period ended with the Terminal extinction of 83% of all species due to the warming of Earth's Climate and mass volcanic activity?

• Cretaceous

• Permian

• Quaternary

• Jurassic

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When was the first evidence of life?

• 7 million years ago

• 6.7 billion years ago

• 3.8 billion years ago

• 4,000 million years ago

After the first life was formed, when did we see eukaryotic cells form?

• 4 billions years ago

• 5 billion years ago

• 1 billion years ago

• 2 billion years ago

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True or false. Primordial soup is a solution rich in organic compounds in the primitive oceans of the earth, from which life is hypothesized to have originated.

• True

• False

True or false. In the paleozoic era we saw the first amphibians, trees and fishes.

• True

• False

What organisms was very prominate in the mesozoic era?

• Dinosaurs

• Fishes

• Metazoans

• chordates

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The cenozoic era began....

• 45 million years ago

• 50 million years ago

• 65 million years ago

• 20 million years ago

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