Old Earth Ministries Online Earth History Curriculum

Earth History Test 8

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1: The Permian Period began:: 570 million years ago (Ma)
415 Ma
299 Ma
65 Ma
2: The Permian Period ended how many million years ago? (number only)
3: The Permian is the final geologic period in the Mesozoic Era.: True
False
4: Most land mass was together during the Permian, in one large supercontinent called:
5: The Permian Basin is a very thick sequence of sedimentary layers in which state in the United States
6: The Permian extinction event was the earth's most severe extinction event in geologic history.: True
False
7: The percentage of marine species that went extinct was______%.: 70
83
96
45
8: The Trilobites, which had been in decline, did not live past the extinction event.: True
False
9: A sessile marine animal is one that is attached to the sea floor (not 'free living').: True
False
10: What may have been a cause of the Permian Extinction?: Volcanism
Impact Event
Methane/Hydrogen Sulfide emissions
All of the above
11: The Siberian Traps was a flood basalt event that covered over 2 million square kilometers of land, dated immediately before the end of the Permian.: True
False
12: An anoxic environment is one that is depleted in ________.
13: The most distinctive characteristic of the Dimetrodon was its ______.: Six limbs
Armored plates
Sail on its back
Polydactyl feet
14: Dimetrodon was an apex predator reaching up to 11 feet long.: True
False