If You Are Watching a Fictional Movie Set in a Land

question 56

Multiple Choice

If you are watching a fictional movie set in a land dominated by flowering plants,plus advancing and retreating glaciers and a cast that includes a human,a wooly mammoth,a saber-toothed cat,and dinosaurs,which characters would be most out of place in the setting according to the geological time line of life on Earth?

• A)the saber-toothed cat and the human
• B)the wooly mammoth and the human
• C)the saber-toothed cat and the dinosaurs
• D)the dinosaurs

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