How Much Do You Know About Ordovician Period?

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    During the Ordovician Period, a wide variety of marine life flourished in the vast seas.

    • True
    • False
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Do you like studying geology? Are you interested in paleontology? Have you studied the Ordovician Period? Take this Ordovician Period quiz to see how much you know about this period. How did this period start, and how it came to an end? What species got extinct during this period? You can play well on this quiz if you know the answers to these questions. All the best for a perfect score! Do share the quiz with others who are interested in this field.

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  • 2. 

    What led to the Ordovician period's mass extinction?

    • Climate change

    • Dangerous animals

    • Earthquake

    • Volcanic eruption

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  • 3. 

    Which organisms were present during the Ordovician era?

    • Endoceras

    • Asteriacites

    • Arandaspida

    • All of the above

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  • 4. 

    What resulted in the Ordovician extinction?

    • Global cooling

    • Reduced sea levels

    • Marine species living in warm, shallow coastal waters got affected.

    • All of the above

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  • 5. 

    Marine invertebrate species in which of these groups were lost in the Ordovician extinction?

    • Brachiopods

    • Trilobites

    • Bivalves

    • All of the above

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  • 6. 

    Cephalopods were the dominant predators of that time.

    • True

    • False

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  • 7. 

    Which era of geologic time is this?

    • Mesozoic

    • Cenozoic

    • Paleozoic

    • Proterozoic

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  • 8. 

    Which organism first appeared in the Ordovician period?

    • Whale

    • Dolphin

    • Starfish

    • All of the above

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  • 9. 

    The Ordovician is divided into how many epochs?

    • 1

    • 2

    • 3

    • 4

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  • 10. 

    How many marine species died in the Ordovician extinction? (approx.)

    • 10

    • 100

    • 1000

    • 100,00

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