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Geologic Time Worksheet Guide

The document is a worksheet for students to complete while exploring a website on geological time. It contains questions for students to answer about the geologic time scale, including defining relative and absolute age, filling out tables with geologic eras and periods in order, and examples of life from different eons and eras in Earth's history. The worksheet aims to teach students about the vast timescale of the Earth's history and major events through interactive activities on the provided website.

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Geologic Time Worksheet Guide

The document is a worksheet for students to complete while exploring a website on geological time. It contains questions for students to answer about the geologic time scale, including defining relative and absolute age, filling out tables with geologic eras and periods in order, and examples of life from different eons and eras in Earth's history. The worksheet aims to teach students about the vast timescale of the Earth's history and major events through interactive activities on the provided website.

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NAME: ________________________________________________ DATE: ___________

Geologic Time Worksheet


Go to the following URL:
[Link]
( PS if you have trouble writing it down, go to
[Link] and on sites that are on the home section,
youll find the hyperlink click on it)
Click on Student Start and then go through the site, answer the questions on this sheet
at the same time!
1. How many pages would the book be?______________________
2. Could you read this book in your lifetime?_________________ Why or Why not?
___________
______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Fill in the table with exciting events from Earths history. (Click on the red tabs)
Event

Time

4. Who is the President pictured?


_______________________________________________________
Which hand is holding the torch on the Statue of Liberty?
_________________________________
5. What is relative age?___________________________
___________________________________
6. What is absolute age?
______________________________________________________________
7. Where is relative time recorded?
______________________________________________________
8. What is the Law of Superposition?
_________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
9. Fill in this table of the fossils found in several rock layers.

Fossil Name

Relative Time

Unique Fact

Name: _____________________________
10.
What do geologists use to find absolute rock and fossil ages?
____________________________
11.
How old is the lower layer of volcanic ash?____________________ How old is the
upper layer of volcanic ash?______________________ How old is the layer in the
middle?_________
12.
What does the geologic time scale represent?
________________________________________
13.
What is flora?_______________________________________
What is fauna?______________________________________
14.
Name the 4 Eons. ___________________________
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
Which eon has the most life?_________________________________
Name some of the life you find in the Proterozoic
Eon.__________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
What life do you find during the Pre-Archean Eon?
______________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
15.
Era

Fill in the table with information about Eras.


Meaning

Examples of life

16.
Put these Periods in the correct order, then list one unique fact about each
period.
Permian___, ______________________________ Tertiary___,
_____________________________
Silurian___, _______________________________ Triassic___, _____________________________
Cambrian___, _____________________________ Devonian___,
___________________________

Quaternary___, ____________________________
__________________________
Carboniferous___, _________________________
_____________________________
Ordivician___, _____________________________
17.

Cretaceous___,
Jurassic___,

Now write your answer for your five quiz questions.

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