Earthquakes & Natural MCQs with Answers

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The largest mass extinction is named the Permian extinction (also called the Great Dying), which wiped out about 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species around 252 million years ago.

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The Cretaceous extinction (Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event) occurred approximately 70 million years ago, marking the end of the dinosaurs.

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A person could not outrun any of these mass wasting phenomena as even the slowest among them, creep, is imperceptibly slow but the others move at devastating speeds far exceeding human running capability.

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Humans evolved during the Quaternary period, which is the most recent geological period spanning the last 2.6 million years.

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The mass extinction of dinosaurs occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago.

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The Permian mass extinction happened approximately 155 million years from now (in the future, not in the past).

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The Permian extinction marked the end of the Paleozoic Era.

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Dinosaurs went extinct during the Cretaceous extinction (also called the K-Pg extinction event), which occurred about 66 million years ago.

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An earthquake can be simplified as the shaking of the earth caused by the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust.

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Land sliding occurs due to All of these — deforestation, heavy rainfall, and earthquakes are all major contributing factors.