Cambrian
Ordovician
Devonian
Punnett Square
General Paleontology Facts
100

This is another name for the Cambrian Period

What is the Paleozoic Era?

100

______________ were the first true vertebrates and were first present during the Ordovician period.

What are fish?

100

This is the name of the first semi-aquatic animals present on Earth

What is a tetrapod?

100
genotypes made from two different alleles are

What is heterozygous?

100

The most common type of petrification is called

What is fossilization?

200

The Cambrian Period was known as "the age of the ____________"

What is trilobite?

200

The Ordovician Period was known as "the age of the________________"

 What is invertebrate?

200

The Devonian Period was known as "the age of the_________________"

What is fish?

200

Genes that are always expressed are called

What is dominant?

200
All scientists use this logical checklist when testing an experiment

What is the scientific method?

300

Unicellular organisms were the first living things that first appeared during the Cambrian period. They are also known as

What are prokaryotes?

300

Multicellular organisms were abundant during the Ordovician period. Another name for multicellular organisms is

What is eukaryotes?

300

These living things began to show great diversification on land during the Devonian Period

What are plants?

300

The physical features that you can visually observe on an individual is called

What is a phenotype?

300

Paleontology is the scientific study of 

What is the life of the geological past?

400

These were the climate conditions during the Cambrian period

Hot and Humid
400

This was one of the main reasons why the Ordovician period ended with a mass extinction

What is a meteor?

400

This classification of animals became abundantly present during the Devonian Period

What are arthopods?

400

The letters on the outside of the Punnett square stand for

What are each parents' alleles?

400

The three main categories of rocks are 

What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?

500

This was when the Cambrian Period began

When was 541 to 485 million years ago?

500
This was when the Ordovician Period began

When was 485 to 444 millions years ago?

500

This was when the Devonian Period began

When was 419 to 359 million years ago?

500

The collection of probabilities of inheriting a specific trait from a parent is called

What is a genotype?

500
These are the seven classifications of life on Earth

What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?

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