Geologic time puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. – A dinosaur lived on Earth millions of years ago.
  2. 5. – During the Precambrian, Earth had very little life and no animals.
  3. 7. – The Cenozoic era is when mammals became the most common animals.
  4. 8. – Pangaea’s land slowly broke apart into the continents we know today.
  5. 11. – Many sea animals appeared during the Paleozoic era.
  6. 12. – The Cretaceous period ended with a major extinction event.
Down
  1. 1. – The extinction of dinosaurs changed life on Earth forever.
  2. 2. – Pangaea was a supercontinent made of all the land on Earth.
  3. 3. – Ferns were some of the first plants to grow on land.
  4. 6. – The Mesozoic era is known as the age of dinosaurs.
  5. 9. – Continental drift explains how continents move over time.
  6. 10. – Humans appeared during the Quaternary period.