Student Questions on Chapter 9

Place your practice question for Chapter 9 in this exam. You can write a multiple choice, matching, or essay question. Be sure your question is original. Remember to put your name in parentheses at the end of the question field.

  1. Ediacara Fauna,the first large multicellular creatures, were very _______ in construction.(Elly Smith)
    Inorganic
    Complex
    Simple
    Restricted
    Acritarchic

  2. Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) occur worldwide in rock types from which eon of rocks? (Roger Irwin)
    Archean
    Proterozoic
    Hadean
    All of the above
    None of the above

  3. The Precambrian makes up what percentage of Earth's History? (Steven Bonham)
    90%
    87%
    85%
    43%

  4. what is the age of most of the rocks of the continental shields?(Kristine fitzgerald)
    cenozoic
    precambrian
    mesozoic
    paleozoic
    cambrian

  5. Seilacher claimed that Ediacaran organisms were a ___________. (Donovan Barnes)
    Direct ancestor of Cambrian species
    fictional organism
    complex rock
    separate radiation of life
    Early form of jellyfish

  6. What time frame did the NeoProterozoic take place in? (Chad Robinson)
    1.0 billion to 542 million years ago.
    542 million to 107 million years ago.
    1.5 billion to 1.0 billion years ago.
    2.5 billion to 1.5 billion years ago.

  7. The Proterozoic lasted about how many years?
    452 Thousand
    2 Million
    4.5 Million
    280 Thousand

  8. What early stage of life included tiny cones, caps, and spirals? (Tessa Gunderson)
    Ediacara fauna
    Prokaryotic cell
    Tommotian fauna
    Eukaryotic cell

  9. When was Gondwanaland formed? (Kelsey Bruns)
    Hadean
    Archean
    Proterozoic
    Phanerozoic

  10. Who discovered Ediacaran fossils in Australia? (Shaylene Houston)
    Glassener
    Seilacher
    Darwin
    Lyell
    Smith

  11. Proterozoic makes up what precentage of Earth's history? (Ashley Olivier)
    45%
    60%
    43%
    87%

  12. What was the name of North America's continent? (Janea Hagen)
    Rodinia
    Wopmay
    Laurentia
    Keweenawan
    Pangea

  13. Who proposed that ediacaran species are primitive forms of modern animal phyla, or the ancestors of Cambrian animal groups? (Sam Gaster)
    Adolf Seilacher
    Ferdinand Hayden
    Robert Murchison
    Martin Glassener
    Carolus Linnaeus

  14. Banded iron formations are an important source of? (Ashley Mullicane)
    Granite
    Iron Ore
    Cratons
    Limestone

  15. When Rodinia broke up, what was the name of half the continental mass that remained together? (Chelsey Johnk)
    It stayed Rodinia
    Gondwanaland
    Pangea
    It didn't have a name
    None of the above is correct

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