MCQ Bank
The first tree sized plants appeared in Late _______ period.
- A) Devonian
- B) Ordovician
- C) Silurian
- D) Cambrian
The extraordinary diversity of tetrapod predators in the sea came to an end
- A) 45 Ma
- B) 65 Ma
- C) 55 Ma
- D) 75 Ma
Classification of trace fossils is based upon _____.
- A) all
- B) dwelling
- C) feeding
- D) farming
______ restricted to Australasia.
- A) pouched
- B) monotremes
- C) placentals
- D) marsupials
A larger brain means higher intelligence and so greater evolutionary adaptability is an _____.
- A) theory
- B) hypothesis
- C) assumption
- D) observation
______ concentrates on macroscopic (visible with the naked eye) plant remains.
- A) Paleobotany
- B) Palynology
- C) both a and b
- D) none
The first reefal frameworks appeared during the Early _____.
- A) Cambrian
- B) Precambrian
- C) Paleocene
- D) Miocene
_____ are observations of the appearance and disappearance of species.
- A) clades
- B) Patterns
- C) Process
- D) laws
Global diversification pattern is comprises of _____ mathematical patterns.
- A) 5
- B) 2
- C) 4
- D) 3
Second major marine reptile group is ______.
- A) Plesiosaurs
- B) none
- C) dinosaurs
- D) Icthysaurs
The extraordinary diversity of tetrapod predators in the sea came to an end ____ Ma.
- A) 65
- B) 75
- C) 45
- D) 55
Primates have _____ vision.
- A) none
- B) binocular
- C) both
- D) ocular
Non-seed-bearing plants arose during _____ era.
- A) Precambrian
- B) Silurian
- C) Devonian
- D) Cambrian
Gymnosperms are _____ plants.
- A) none-seed
- B) seeded
- C) none
- D) fungi-like
Modern birds appeared in the latest _____ and Early _____.
- A) Tertiary
- B) none
- C) both
- D) Cretaceous
The theropods and sauropodomorphs share the primitive reptilian _____ pattern.
- A) jaw
- B) limbs
- C) pelvis
- D) hip
.....................Lived in Africa from 2.4 to 1.5 Ma
- A) Homo sapiens
- B) Homo habilis
- C) Homo neanderthalis
- D) Homo erectus
A new species, H. erectus, which arose in Africa about ____ Ma.
- A) 4.9
- B) 2.9
- C) 3.9
- D) 1.9
True monkeys arose in the _____.
- A) Jurassic
- B) Paleocene
- C) Miocene
- D) Eocene
John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry (1997) identified ____ major steps from the origin of life to human societies with language.
- A) 5
- B) 7
- C) 8
- D) 6