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HistoryofLifeonEarth
8th Earth Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All of the fossils that have been discovered worldwide | Fossil record |
| Death of every member of a species. | Extinction |
| Trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago | Fossil |
| Division of Earth's History into manageable parts. | Geologic Time Scale |
| Type of fossil that shows an organism lived there or organism activity. | Trace fossils |
| Type of fossil that is the "hard part" of animals such as the teeth, bones, or shells. | Body fossils |
| Type of extinction event when an entire species goes extinction very quickly. | Catastrophe |
| The four major divisions that make up the history of life on Earth are called what? | Precambrian time, Paleozoic era, Mesozoic era, and the Cenozoic era. |
| The largest unit of time on the geologic time scale. | Eon |