GTS Project Name: Period: ______ Staple this sheet to the front of
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GTS Project Name: ______________________________________ Period: _______ Staple this sheet to the front of your white piece of paper. Part 1: Use a white piece of computer paper to create 4 murals/drawings of each major time period of the Geologic Time Scale (GTS): Precambrian Time, Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, and Cenozoic Era. The drawing should include BOTH major features/changes/environments on Earth AND major organisms that lived within this time period. You should use multiple resources to create these drawings. Make sure to label each square drawing with the time period name and the time span/date that it represents. Feel free to label your drawings with dates and words/names of organisms. You should have at least between 7-15 different events, organisms or items shown for each. This should be colored and neatly presented. (Note: Epochs and periods within the era DO NOT count as one of the 7-15 items) Part 2: Fill in the table below with one major organism (can be a specific species or more general) found within p. 108121 of your Glencoe book from the time period in the table, an important adaptation of that organism, if it’s structural or behavioral, and how the adaptation was used in the environment it was living in. Use the back for more space if needed. Time period Significant Organism Adaptation Behavioral or Structural HOW it was used in the environment or WHY it was a beneficial trait. Precambrian Time Paleozoic Era Mesozoic Era Cenozoic Era Part 3: Questions – write the best answer to the left of the number _____1. The Cambrian, Silurian, and Cretaceous are divisions in the Geologic Time Scale called a a. layers b. periods c. epochs d. eras _____ 2. Which of the following is not an era? a. Paleozoic b. Mesozoic c. Cenozoic d. Triassic _____ 3. What is the next smaller division of geologic time after era? a. Period b. Stage c. Epoch d. Eon _____ 4. What is the name of the supercontinent that formed at the end of the Paleozoic Era? a. Gonwandaland b. Eurasia c. Laurasia d. Pangaea _____ 5. During which geologic period did modern humans evolve? a. Quaternary b. Triassic c. Ordovician d. Tertiary _____ 6. What is the most recent epoch in the Cenozoic era? a. Pleistocene b. Paleocene c. Miocene d. Holocene _____ 7. What was one of the earliest forms of life? a. gymnosperms b. cyanobacteria c. humans d. dinosaurs _____ 8. Which time period is the longest? a. Precambrian b. Paleozoic c. Mesozoic d. Cenozoic _____ 9. Which time period is still getting longer? a. Precambrian b. Paleozoic c. Mesozoic d. Cenozoic _____ 10. Which of the following is the correct order of time periods from longest to shortest? a. epoch, eon, era, period b. eon, era, epoch, period c. eon, era, period, epoch d. era, eon, period epoch Word Bank for matching: Matching: Some will be used more than once, some not at all ______16. Era that contained mostly fish A. Geologic Time Scale ______17. “The age of the mammals” B. Mesozoic ______18. Smallest unit of geologic time C. Precambrian ______19. Longest era of earth’s history. D. Period ______20. Era that features the trilobites E. Epoch ______21. The era in which dinosaurs are featured F. Paleontologist ______22. The record of events in earth’s history ______23. The scientist that studies fossils. G. Cenozoic ______24. The era in which Pangaea broke apart H. Paleozoic ______25. The era that features the ice age & mammoths I. Trilobite ______26. The era where amphibians first appeared. GTS Project Name: ______________________________________ Period: _______ Staple this sheet to the front of your white piece of paper. Due: Friday 1/10/14 Part 1: Use a white piece of computer paper to create 4 murals/drawings of each major time period of the Geologic Time Scale (GTS): Precambrian Time, Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, and Cenozoic Era. The drawing should include BOTH major features/changes/environments on Earth AND major organisms that lived within this time period. You should use multiple resources to create these drawings. Make sure to label each square drawing with the time period name and the time span/date that it represents. Feel free to label your drawings with dates and words/names of organisms. You should have at least between 7-15 different events, organisms or items shown for each. This should be colored and neatly presented. (Note: Epochs and periods within the era DO NOT count as one of the 7-15 items) Part 2: Fill in the table below with one major organism (can be a specific species or more general) found within p. 108121 of your Glencoe book from the time period in the table, an important adaptation of that organism, if it’s structural or behavioral, and how the adaptation was used in the environment it was living in. Use the back for more space if needed. Time period Significant Organism Adaptation Behavioral or Structural HOW it was used in the environment or WHY it was a beneficial trait. Precambrian Time Paleozoic Era Mesozoic Era Cenozoic Era Part 3: Questions – write the best answer to the left of the number _____1. The Cambrian, Silurian, and Cretaceous are divisions in the Geologic Time Scale called a a. layers b. periods c. epochs d. eras _____ 2. Which of the following is not an era? a. Paleozoic b. Mesozoic c. Cenozoic d. Triassic _____ 3. What is the next smaller division of geologic time after era? a. Period b. Stage c. Epoch d. Eon _____ 4. What is the name of the supercontinent that formed at the end of the Paleozoic Era? a. Gonwandaland b. Eurasia c. Laurasia d. Pangaea _____ 5. During which geologic period did modern humans evolve? a. Quaternary b. Triassic c. Ordovician d. Tertiary _____ 6. What is the most recent epoch in the Cenozoic era? a. Pleistocene b. Paleocene c. Miocene d. Holocene _____ 7. What was one of the earliest forms of life? a. gymnosperms b. cyanobacteria c. humans d. dinosaurs _____ 8. Which time period is the longest? a. Precambrian b. Paleozoic c. Mesozoic d. Cenozoic _____ 9. Which time period is still getting longer? a. Precambrian b. Paleozoic c. Mesozoic d. Cenozoic _____ 10. Which of the following is the correct order of time periods from longest to shortest? a. epoch, eon, era, period b. eon, era, epoch, period c. eon, era, period, epoch d. era, eon, period epoch Word Bank for matching: Matching: Some will be used more than once, some not at all ______16. Era that contained mostly fish A. Geologic Time Scale ______17. “The age of the mammals” B. Mesozoic ______18. Smallest unit of geologic time C. Precambrian ______19. Longest era of earth’s history. D. Period ______20. Era that features the trilobites E. Epoch ______21. The era in which dinosaurs are featured F. Paleontologist ______22. The record of events in earth’s history ______23. The scientist that studies fossils. G. Cenozoic ______24. The era in which Pangaea broke apart H. Paleozoic ______25. The era that features the ice age & mammoths I. Trilobite ______26. The era where amphibians first appeared.
