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Understanding time scales

The starter and exit quiz of the lesson “Understanding time scales”, from the unit “Adaptations, competition, natural selection and evolution” (Year 9 Science) by Oak National Academy.

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12 questions

What name is given to the number 1000?
Which of the numbers below represents one million?
What is the name of the planet upon which we all live?
Which picture shows a fossil?
Which of these things could **not** become a fossil?
What is a fossil?
Write one thousand as a number.
What is the correct way to write one million?
What name is given to the number 1 000 000 000?
After studying the ages of rocks, when do scientists think the Earth was formed?
Starting with the earliest, put these events in the order they occurred.
For how much of the Earth’s history have humans existed?

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