Geologic Time Periods

The period when huge land plants were dominant and eventually became the coal and oil we use today.

• Cambrian

• Carboniferous

• Jurassic

• Miocene

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The Triassic Period, the Jurassic Period, and the Cretaceous Period occurred in what era?

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

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Eras of the geologic time scale are
divided into ______.

• periods

• ages

• units

• epochs

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The period of geologic time when the biodiversity of life on the planet increased dramatically was

• Jurassic

• Triassic

• Permian

• Cambrian

Which period are we currently in?

• Quaternary

• Holocene

• Jurassic

• Tertiary

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What do we call the theoretical arrangement of all earth's history?

• geologic column

• space time

• Jurassic

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Which period of geologic time is also known as the age of the dinosaurs?

• Cenozoic

• Mesozoic

• Paleozoic

• Pre-cambrian

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What can we determine about life on Earth using the geologic time scale?

• over time organisms have evolved into more complex organisms

• over time organisms have evolved into more simplistic organisms

• over time all organisms have changed to have long necks

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Most of the bedrock exposed on the Allegheny Plateau was formed during which geologic time period?

• Silurian

• Devonian

• Ordovician

• Cambrian

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Because the time span of Earth's past is so great, geologists use the ​ (a)   to show Earth's history.

• geologic time scale

• graphical time span

• geological time frame

• geographical time set

• gigantic fossil index

• geologic fossil index

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