Here are the answers to the multiple-choice questions you provided:
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What is the Goldilocks Zone?
- Answer: A zone around a star where conditions are just right for water to exist in a liquid state on a planet's surface.
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What is the Geologic Time Scale?
- Answer: A timeline of Earth's history that is divided into different time periods based on significant events and changes in the planet.
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What are the four main eons in the Geologic Time Scale?
- Answer: Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, Phanerozoic.
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What is plate tectonics?
- Answer: The theory that explains the movement of the Earth's lithosphere over the asthenosphere.
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What are biomes?
- Answer: Geographic regions with specific climate, flora, and fauna.
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What is an ecosystem?
- Answer: A community of living organisms, along with their physical and chemical environment.
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When did the Paleozoic Era begin and end?
- Answer: 541 million years ago - approximately 252 million years ago.
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What happened during the Mesozoic Era?
- Answer: Dinosaurs dominated the land.
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When would humans appear on a single calendar year representing the history of Earth?
- Answer: During the last month, the December of the Cenozoic Era.
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What are ecosystems made up of?
- Answer: Both living and nonliving components.
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