Old Earth Ministries Online Earth History Curriculum

Earth History Test 14


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1: The Quaternary Period started about 2.5 million years ago, and extends to the present day.
True
False
2: The first epoch of the Quaternary is called the _______ Epoch.

3: The second epoch is called the ________ Epoch.

4: The Pleistocene Epoch is noted for its many periods of glaciations.
True
False
5: The end of the Pleistocene is marked by the retreat of the last continental glacier, approximately 12,000 years ago.
True
False
6: At the end of the Pleistocene, there was an extinction event, leading to the extinction of
Mammoths and Mastadons
Saber-toothed cats
Cave bears
All of the above
7: Human civilization, in its most widely used definition, dates entirely in the ________ Epoch.

8: The glaciations during the Quaternary sometimes pushed continental glaciers as far south as the 40th parallel.
True
False
9: Over the past 740,000 years, there have been eight glacial cycles.
True
False
10: Periods in between glacial events are called ________.

11: The Yellowstone volcanic caldera is believed to lie on top of a hotspot, which has led to a series of eruptions over the last 17 million years, resulting in 142 caldera forming eruptions.
True
False
12: Three eruptions have occurred during the Quaternary, the last being _______ years ago.