Geologic Time Scale

ARCHEAN
CALABRIAN
CARBONIFEROUS
CENOZOIC
CRETACEOUS
EON
EPOCH
ERA
HADEAN
HOLOCENE
JURASSIC
MESOZOIC
NEOGENE
PALEOGENE
PALEOZOIC
PERIOD
PLEISTOCENE
PRECAMBRIAN
PROTEROZOIC
TRIASSIC

This geological word search deals with the names of different eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages from 4.6 billion years ago (bya) to the present.

Try to find all 20 words on this board.

Y N K B K P H R H M L E I P R N H M F F
T L T S J M N Q P D A Q V Q A S A J R C
R T J P B B M W Y P A D O E E C N K J G
I U Z B E V X M L Q G R D A I T U Y K V
A J C H C A L A B R I A N O G U E A V O
S F I M R A H P I P H Y Z M J K W P D T
S F S C E P R O T E R O Z O I C M F O H
I N S J T L R B O L N U L X I B I D I M
C Z A W A E L E O E O T D O J M H M R E
H I R S C I Y G C N R Z S F C C V P E G
P R U R E S Z R I A I E X E O E U Y P P
E P J S O T R E P R M F O P T R N A A L
E M T X U O A S O C P B E O N I L E L Q
Y J G N S C R H Q H F Z R R F E M B E C
T U A G I E W Y L E X C A I O P M B O U
A V L N Y N J T V A M B X G A U T H Z P
A A K A V E F W T N O S E D E N S E O F
T J B Y Y E N E G O E N C L M P W S I Q
F V Q Q Q R G S L Q E T Z W S J G R C T
M P M E S O Z O I C C S Y K N Q X P N G
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Answer Key for Geologic Time Scale

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5A # C # C A L A B R I A N O # # # # # #
6S # I # R A # # # # H # Z # # # # # D #
7S # S # E P R O T E R O Z O I C # # O #
8I # S # T L R B # # N # L # # # # # I #
9C # A # A E # E O E # # # O # # H # R #
10# # R # C I # # C N # # # # C C # # E #
11# # U # E S # # # A I # # # O E # # P #
12# # J # O T # # # R M F # P # # N A A #
13# # # # U O # # # C # B E O N # L E L #
14# # # # S C # # # H # # R R # E # # E #
15# # # # # E # # # E # # A I O # # # O #
16# # # # # N # # # A # # # G A U # # Z #
17# # # # # E # # # N # # E # # N S # O #
18# # # # # E N E G O E N # # # # # # I #
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20# # M E S O Z O I C # # # # # # # # # #
Word X Y Direction
ARCHEAN  1011s
CALABRIAN  55e
CARBONIFEROUS  1111se
CENOZOIC  910ne
CRETACEOUS  55s
EON  1313e
EPOCH  1313ne
ERA  1313s
HADEAN  116ne
HOLOCENE  127se
JURASSIC  311n
MESOZOIC  320e
NEOGENE  1218w
PALEOGENE  1911sw
PALEOZOIC  1911s
PERIOD  1911n
PLEISTOCENE  67s
PRECAMBRIAN  67se
PROTEROZOIC  77e
TRIASSIC  12s