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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Earth and Life Science
Film Viewing - Earth: Making of the Planet
Quiz
I. Completion.
Directions: Complete the following statements by providing the missing terms. Choose your answers in the box
provided.
Choices:

Asia/ Ammosaurs Anomalocaris/ Asteroid/ Cambrian explosion/

Coals/ Darwinius massilae/Ida Dilophosaur Flood basalt eruption Gorgonopsids/

Himalayas/ Hydrogen peroxide Hylonomus/ Ichthyosaurs Meganeura

Meteors/ Methane gas Oil Oxygen Ozone/

Pangea/Pangaea/ Permean extinction/ Pikaia Photosynthesis Pliosaur

Rodinia Scutosaurs Snowball Earth Sulfuric acid/ Stromatolites

Tethys Theia/ Tiktaalik/ Water/ Wiwaxia

The collision of the proto-Earth and (1) Theia (same size as Mars) leads to the birth of the moon and changes in the
planet.

3.9 billion years ago, a hail of (2) Meteors attack the Earth. Inside these celestial bodies are crystals that look like grains
of salt and inside these crystals are minute droplets of (3) Water. They infiltrate the atmosphere and hits the surface of
the Earth. The meteorites reached the surface of the planet and becomes the source of the main component of aquatic
life.

3.5 billion years ago, in shallow oceans lies (4)________________ growing out of the sea bed. These are considered as
colonies of living bacteria that performs (5)______________ to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose as for
food production thus releasing the by-product (6)________________ which is essential for all organisms.

Over 400 million years, due to tectonic plate activities plates were moved to form a vast supercontinent called (7)
Pangea/Pangaea

650 million years ago, is the start of (8) ________________ which is considered to be the longest and coldest ice age in
our planet.

While the planet was frozen, the Sun’s ultraviolet rays penetrate the atmosphere. The UV rays reacted with water
molecules in the ice to produce (9)______________________ , a chemical that is rich in oxygen.

540 million years ago, there are plants scattered on the sea floor and the primitive bacteria in the oceans evolved to
form a new generation of complex multi-celled organisms called (10)______________.

The (11) Cambrian explosion period refers to the state of the planet where there is an increase in oxygen levels which
allowed the creatures to grow larger and develop bony skeletons; there are worms, sponges, and trilobites.

(12) Anomalocaris is considered to be a monster in the ocean which is 2 feet long in size with large eyes, razor sharp
teeth and grasping limbs and is a predator of trilobites.

(13)_______________ is the first organism with a spine which is an inch and a half long in size.

460 million years ago, as the plates continue to move, the level of oxygen is almost similar as of today. 30 miles up
where the sun rays enters the Earth atmosphere oxygen meets the sun’s radiation that forms the (14 Ozone which will
be thicker and prevents more radiation from reaching the Earth’s surface.
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375 million years ago, a new species called (15) Tiktaalik lives in the water which is considered as a strange fish having
its neck to raise itself up and its fins as legs allowing it to move out of the water and reside on land.

(16)____________ is an insect the size of an eagle, its legs have evolved into wings extending the dragon fly’s hunting
territory over a vast area.

Early species prefer to lay their eggs in the water except for (17) Hylonomus (reptile); a lizard-like creature which prefers
land for egg-laying processes as its eggs contain all the water and nutrients that the developing fetus needs.

300 million years ago, dead plants matters build up and decays into soggy layers; as the rocks covers these layers heat
from the Earth’s core and pressure from the overlying rocks transforms these layers in seams of (18) Coals

250 million years ago, a herd of creatures, (19)____________ which are distant relatives of turtles (plant-eaters) and
(20) Gorgonopsids which are considered as a perfectly engineered pre-historic killing machines (carnivores) with saber
teeth graze the Siberian plains. (21)_____________________ refers to a massive plume of mantle rises up from deep
inside the Earth, and pushes molten rock out through fissures in the Earth’s crust which caused the death of early
terrestrial creatures. This phenomena leads to (22) Permean extinction which is the greatest mass extinction that ever
happened in the planet Earth.

During the greatest mass extinction, ashes from the Siberian eruptions burns and suffocates the animals in other region
thus killing them. Sulfur dioxide from the eruptions fills the atmosphere. As it rains, the gas turns into (23) Sulfuric acid
and burns everything it falls on leading to a global disaster.

Bubbles of (24)_______________, a greenhouse gas which is at least twenty times deadlier than CO 2, are released from
the sea bed to the atmosphere causing an increase in the temperature of the planet which is 105 degrees hotter than
the temperature before the Siberian eruptions.

200 million years ago, (25)________________ which a supercontinent formed after the greatest mass extinction
stretches from pole to pole which becomes the place for the domination of the dinosaurs. Temperature stabilizes, acid
rain neutralizes and vegetation returns.

(26) ______________________ are species that evolved from the reptiles that survived the massive extinction being 15
feet tall making them slow and vulnerable and are usually prey of carnivorous organisms. (27)__________________ are
small but fast species considered to be predators.

190 million years ago, due to tectonic plate activities, the supercontinent tears apart. A vast slab of land breaks away
forming a chasm which is filled by a new ocean called the (28)___________ which will be the Middle East in the current
time. Dead fishes and plankton carpet the ocean floor, over the next 10 million years, rock and heat will bury the
organisms thus forming (29)_________.

New oceans, ocean floor, volcanoes and continents are formed. (30)________________, which reptiles’ ancestor lived
on land, due to planet’s changes becomes aquatic and lives in the Atlantic Ocean. They are 20 feet long, travels 25 miles
per hour and considered to be the oceans fastest creature and the most efficient predator. It rules the oceans for 50
million years. But these organisms becomes prey to (31)_______________ - a species longer than a bus which jaws are 8
times powerful than the great white shark having teeth which are 12 inches long.

The extinction of the dinosaurs is believed to be caused by an (32) Asteroid which is bigger than the Mt. Everest and
goes straight to the gulf of Mexico.

47 million years ago, a lake in Germany stands as the perfect place for mammals which have evolved into something
with bigger brain and eyes called (33)__________________; origin of monkeys, apes and eventually human.

The Earth’s plates move again. India moves north towards (34) Asia. As the plates converge, they formed the (35)
Himalayas which is over 27,000 feet.