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title: Deep time and the story of life — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 58 «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Deep time and the story of life

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The 16 questions of lesson 58 «Deep time and the story of life» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 86 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t1/) — A cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs. What is wrong? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t2/) — If Earth's 4.54 billion years were one day, which came first? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t3/) — A rock has half its radioactive atoms left after one half-life. After a second half-life, how much is left? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t4/) — Why could no animals like us live on Earth 3 billion years ago? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t5/) — "dinosaurs are totally extinct, none left" — Zoe. Is she quite right? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t6/) — What would probably have happened if the asteroid had missed Earth 66 million years ago? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t7/) — Which order is right, oldest first? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t8/) — A teacher stretches a 4.5 km rope, 1 metre for every million years. About how long is the part since the dinosaurs died? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t9/) — my mate goes "earth's like a few thousand years old innit". What do rocks show? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t10/) — Why was the biggest mass extinction worse than the one that ended the dinosaurs? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t11/) — Why did whales and elephants appear only after the dinosaurs? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/t12/) — In a game, the Jurassic comes after humans built cities. What is true? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/e1/) — Ascertain the age of the Earth as established by radiometric dating. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/e2/) — Identify the principle upon which the radiometric dating of rocks depends. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Cambrian explosion? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/e4/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the termination of the age of non-avian dinosaurs. — wrong ✗ · exam

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