Write True if the statement is correct and False is otherwise.  ____1. Geologists separate time periods by identifying the fossils that have been preserved. ____2. Eons have duration hundreds of millions of years. ____3. Geologists divided the history of Earth into intervals of time that are unequal in length.

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Write True if the statement is correct and False is otherwise. 
____1. Geologists separate time periods by identifying the fossils that have been
preserved.
____2. Eons have duration hundreds of millions of years.
____3. Geologists divided the history of Earth into intervals of time that are unequal in
length.
____4. Phanerozoic is divided into two eras.
____5. Transformation of Earth happened during Precambrian Eon.
____6. Dinosaur is the animal that dominated during Paleozoic Era.
____7. Periods are subdivided into smaller time interval called era.
____8. Mesozoic era marked the separation of major landmasses.
____9. The Cenozoic Era is the current and most recent of the three geological eras of the
Phanerozoic Eon.
____10. The history of life on Earth actually begins during the Hadean Era.

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