Old Earth Ministries Online Earth History Curriculum

Earth History Test 11


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1: The Cretaceous Period began:
199 million years ago
102.4 million years ago
65.5 million years ago
145.5 million years ago
2: The Cretaceous was so named because of the many chalk layers that formed during this period.
True
False
3: The great body of water that split the continent of North America during the mid to late Cretaceous was
The Cretaceous Bay
The Larimide Ocean
The Western Interior Seaway
The Kansas-Colorado Sea
4: The Niobrara Formation was deposited 87-82 Ma, from chalk, and contains specimens of many vertabrates, including primitive aquatic birds.
True
False
5: The Hell Creek Formation was formed during which age of the Cretaceous?
Turonian
Albian
Maastrichtian
Barremian
6: The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event occurred approximately
67.1 million years ago
65.5 million years ago
63.4 million years ago
65 million years ago
7: The K-T boundary contains a thin layer of clay that is rich in what element?
Potassium
Radon
Cobalt
Iridium
8: The crater thought to be associated with the K-T boundary is the
Yucatan Crater
Caribbean Crater
Chicxulub Crater
Deccan Crater
9: All major Cretaceous mammalian lineages survived the K-T event, although they did suffer losses.
True
False
10: When the meteor hit, the shock wave caused all dinosaurs to instantly fall over dead at the precise moment of impact.
True
False
11: Some non-avian dinosaurs may have lived past the extinction event, but the evidence is not universally accepted.
True
False
12: The paleontologist who studied Deinonychus, and started the ‘Dinosaur renaissance, was
Jack Horner
Bob Bakker
Edward Cope
John Ostrom
13: The predatory behavior of Deinonychus is based on two quarries containing which dinosaur?
Hadrosaurus
Triceratops
Tenontosaurus
Hamburgersaurus
14: The largest known specimens of Deinonychus indicated a maximum weight of 161 pounds and a maximum length of about
17 feet
11 feet
9 feet
23 feet