Quiz  /  Name That Geologic Interval Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which interval was characterized by Earth’s initial formation, lasting from 4.6 billion to 4 billion years ago?

  • Phanerozoic Eon
  • Jurassic Period
  • Hadean Eon
  • Anthropocene Epoch

  • 2. 
    The supercontinent called Pangea first came together during this period.

  • Jurassic Period
  • Permian Period
  • Paleogene Period
  • Devonian Period

  • 3. 
    Which unofficial interval is thought to have begun in 1950?

  • Carboniferous Period
  • Ordovician Period
  • Anthropocene Epoch
  • Holocene Epoch

  • 4. 
    The highest global temperatures during the most-recent 66 million years occurred near the boundary between which two geologic epochs?

  • Oligocene and Miocene
  • Paleocene and Eocene
  • Pleistocene and Holocene
  • Pliocene and Anthropocene

  • 5. 
    The “Age of Fishes” occurred during which interval?

  • Devonian Period
  • Triassic Period
  • Proterozoic Eon
  • Quaternary Period

  • 6. 
    The greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history occurred at the end of this period.

  • Jurassic Period
  • Permian Period
  • Silurian Period
  • Cretaceous Period

  • 7. 
    The unparalleled emergence of organisms, including 20–35 of the major phyla of animals that occur on Earth today, took place during which interval?

  • Carboniferous Period
  • Cretaceous Period
  • Silurian Period
  • Cambrian Period

  • 8. 
    For some 65 million years of this period’s 85-million-year span, much if not all of Earth’s surface was covered in ice.

  • Cretaceous Period
  • Cambrian Period
  • Cryogenian Period
  • Carboniferous Period

  • 9. 
    Homo sapiens is thought to have first evolved during this epoch.

  • Anthropocene Epoch
  • Holocene Epoch
  • Pleistocene Epoch
  • Miocene Epoch

  • 10. 
    This period was characterized by the emergence of coal swamps and the dominance of vascular land plants.

  • Cretaceous Period
  • Triassic Period
  • Carboniferous Period
  • Devonian Period
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