Early Paleozoic Life Quiz
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- 1.Why was there increasing diversity in the types of life forms that were present in the early Paleozoic era?
- A.
Earth's atmosphere formed during this era
- B.
Earth's Environment became more stable
- C.
Earth's crust formed
- D.
Earth's poles flipped
- 2.These were free-floating, colonial animals that were prevalent during Paleozoic times.
- A.
Stromatolites
- B.
Jelly Fish
- C.
Ductiliolites
- D.
Graptolites
- 3.The first cephalopods appeared during the ____________.
- A.
Silurian
- B.
Ordovician
- C.
Precambrian
- D.
Devonian
- 4.The Devonian period is also know as ______________________.
- A.
The Age of Reptiles
- B.
The Age of Stromatolites
- C.
The Age of Fish
- D.
The Age of Reasoning
- 5.The earliest ancestors of fish share this common trait with lamp rays and hag fish.
- A.
Bony
- B.
Shelled
- C.
Scales
- D.
Jawless
- 6.Fecundity is _________________.
- A.
Mortality Rate
- B.
Reproduction Rate
- C.
Feeding Rate
- D.
Habituation Rate
- 7.All of these are causes of extinction during the Early Paleozoic except....
- A.
Over grazing
- B.
New Predators
- C.
Over Fishing
- D.
Loss of Niche
- 8.Evolutionary success is widely attributed to ________________.
- A.
High predatory rates
- B.
Low predatory rates
- C.
Specialization
- D.
Loss of Niche
- 9.What does Cephalopod mean?
- A.
Head-hands
- B.
Mouth-feet
- C.
Head-feet
- D.
Tongue-cheek
- 10.Cephalopods are part of which family?
- A.
Arthropods
- B.
Mollusks
- C.
Canines
- D.
Bovina
- 11.Clams are also called
- A.
Bivalves
- B.
Trivalves
- C.
Quatrivalves
- D.
Ceptivalves
- 12.The spreading of a species over large amounts of space and environments.
- A.
Secificity
- B.
Radiation
- C.
Extinction
- D.
Destinction
- 13.Fossils from the early Paleozoic indicate increasing _____________.
- A.
Size
- B.
Coloring
- C.
Shells
- D.
Diversity
- 14.During the early Paleozoic Era, continents were grouped close to the equator. As they moved apart, what happened?
- A.
Rocks formed
- B.
Oceans got shallow
- C.
Oceans got deep
- D.
Mountains collapsed
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