Philippe Andrew Quema
NAME and Section: _________________________________
12 STEM D DATE: ___________
03/09/23
Geologic Time Worksheet
Adapted from: Lincoln Public School
Note: This is an Interactive worksheet, to answer it please Go to the following URL:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/index.html
Click on Student Start and then go through the site, answer the questions on this sheet at the
same time!
1. How many pages would the book be?______________________
4,600,000,000 pages
2. Could you read this book in your lifetime?_________________ No Why or Why not?___________
because we need
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17,503 years to finish it and that is more than humans can live.
3. Fill in the table with exciting events from Earth’s history. (Click on the red tabs)
Event Time
Formation of Earth and Moon 4,600,000,000 years ago
Earliest Life 3,900,000,000 years ago
Early Land Plants 420,000,000 years ago
Largest Mass Extinction 248,000,000 years ago
Dinosaur Extinction 65,000,000 years ago
"Lucy" Early Hominid 4,000,000 years ago
4. Who is the President pictured?_______________________________________________________
Abraham Lincoln
Which hand is holding the torch on the Statue of Liberty?_________________________________
Right hand
5. What is relative age?___________________________
The age of a rock layer (or the fossils it___________________________________
contains) compared to other layers.
6. What is absolute age?______________________________________________________________
The numeric age of a layer of rocks or fossils.
7. Where is relative time recorded?______________________________________________________
It is recorded in rocks.
8. What is the Law of Superposition?_________________________________________________
Within a sequence of layers of sedimentary rocks, the oldest is at the
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base and it is progressively younger going up.
9. Fill in this table of the fossils found in several rock layers.
Fossil Name Relative Time Unique Fact
Ammonites sixty-five million years Not unlike the living Nautilus
Eurypterids 245 million years Some reached 6 feet in length
Brachiopods 400 million years Still common in cold waters today
Trilobites 540 million years Their bodies are divided into three lobes
10. What do geologists use to find absolute rock and fossil ages?____________________________
Radiometric dating
11. How old is the lower layer of volcanic ash?____________________ How old is the upper
470 million years
layer of volcanic ash?______________________
460 million years How old is the layer in the middle?_________
468-470 million years
12. What does the geologic time scale represent?________________________________________
The entire history of the Earth
13. What is flora?_______________________________________
Flora means plants
What is fauna?______________________________________
Fauna means animals of each time period
14. Name the 4 Eons. ___________________________
Phanerozoic Eon
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Proterozoic
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Archean
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Pre-Archean
Which eon has the most life?_________________________________
Phanerozoic
Name some of the life you find in the Proterozoic Eon.__________________________________
Charnia, Dickinsonia, Tribrachidium, Spriggina
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What life do you find during the Pre-Archean Eon?______________________________________
There is no evidence for life at that time.
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15. Fill in the table with information about Era’s.
Era Meaning Examples of life
Cenozoic Recent Life Flowering plants and Mammals
Mesozoic Middle Life Dinosaurs and Ferns
Paleozoic Ancient Life Brachiopods and Trilobite
16. Put these Periods in the correct order, then list one unique fact about each period.
Permian___,
6 ______________________________
Land continents came together Tertiary___,
2 _____________________________
Flourishing of flowering plants
Silurian___,
9 _______________________________
Remarkable time in the evolution of fishes Triassic___,
5 _____________________________
Organisms of the Triassic included
Cambrian___,
11 _____________________________
Major groups of animals first appear Devonian___,
8 ___________________________
Producing the first trees and forests
Quaternary___, ____________________________
1 glaciers were uncovered in interglacial
Cretaceous___,
3 __________________________
First dinosaurs appeared
periods
Carboniferous___,7 _________________________
Increase in large insects and tree Jurassic___, _____________________________
4 Plant- eating dinosaurs roamed the earth
Ordivician___,
10 _____________________________
Diverse Marine invertebrates
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17. Take the 5 question quiz. Write your score here_____________________________
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