Prehistoric Animals Trivia General Knowledge Questions
1. Any animal that existed more than 5,500 years ago, before human beings began recording their history in writing is _
Answer: Prehistoric animal.
2. Which is the best known prehistoric animal?
Answer: Dinosaurs.
3. Seismosaurus (a kind of Dinosaurs) have a maximum length of _
Answer: 150 feet (45 meters).
4. Length of a sea scorpion was:
Answer: 8 feet (24 meters).
5. The long history of animals is recorded by:
Answer: Fossils.
6. Which are the remains of prehistoric life?
Answer: Fossils.
7. Fossils consist of:
Answer: Bones, shells and tracks of animals, as well as petrified wood and impressions leaves.
8. Scientists who study about fossils:
Answer: Paleontology.
9. Paleontology compare prehistoric animals with living one using:
Answer: Fossils.
10. The oldest known animal remains date from:
Answer: About 600 million years ago.
11. A period in which most animals developed in the earth history, is called by scientists:
Answer: Phanerozoic Eon.
12. ‘Phanerozoic Eon’ means:
Answer: Time of visible animal life.
13. When did Phanerozoic Eon begin?
Answer: About 544 million years ago.
14. Scientists divide the Phanerozoic Eon into how many eras?
Answer: Three.
15. Which are the three divisions in Phanerozoic Eon?
Answer: Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era and Cenozoic Era).
Prehistoric Animals Trivia General Knowledge Questions Part 2
16. The duration of Paleozoic Era:
Answer: From about 544 million to 248 million years ago.
17. The duration of Mesozoic Era:
Answer: From 248 million to 65 million years ago.
18. The Cenozoic Era started from:
Answer: 65 million years ago.
19. At present which era is continuing?
Answer: Cenozoic Era.
20. Each of the three eras are divided into shorter intervals called:
Answer: Periods.
21. Periods can be divided into:
Answer: Epochs.
22. Animal life evolved and flourished only after:
Answer: Plants become available as food.
23. Food of prehistoric animals:
Answer: Either plants or plant eating animals.
24. The earliest animals were lived in:
Answer: Seas.
25. The bodies of the earliest animals in the seas were made up of:
Answer: Cells.
26. The earliest animals in the seas used which part for feeding, reproduction etc.?
Answer: Cells.
27. Which are the first animals, known from fossils preserved in rocks about 600 million to 570 million years old?
Answer: Jellyfishes, worms and leaf like creatures.
28. Leaf like creatures are called:
Answer: Sea pens.
29. Jellyfishes, worms and sea pens were:
Answer: Invertebrates.
30. Invertebrate means:
Answer: Animals having no backbones.