Recuperation test - HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH

Write your answers on a sheet of paper, with your name on top, and deliver to me as
soon as possible.

QUESTIONS
1. Most fossils are the remains of plants and animals which have fallen to the
bottom of the oceans or lakes and then have been compressed in rock, so they
could not decay. Which sort of rock forms at the bottom of oceans and lakes,
containing fossils?
2. Which era, lasting from 225 million years ago (mya) to about 66 mya is known
as the 'Age of the Dinosaurs'?
3. How many thousands of years ago did the first humans (hominids) probably
appear?
4. What was the theory of 'Spontaneous Generation'?
5. How many billion years ago did the first bacteria probably appear?
6. Write 3.5 billion years in full numbers.
7. Cyanobacteria produce oxygen as a result of which reaction?
8. Why was the production of oxygen by cyanobacteria so important?
9. Bacteria are known as prokaryotes because they re composed of simple,
prokaryotic cells. 'Modern' cells developed from prokaryotic cells. What are
'modern' cells known as?
10. Which theory best explains the way in which 'modern' cells developed from
prokaryotic cells?