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.

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

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13# # # # N O # H O C E B E E I O # # E #
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16# # # # # N # # I A Z # # # A U # # I #
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Word X Y Direction
ARCHEAN  1011s
CALABRIAN  55s
CARBONIFEROUS  1111se
CENOZOIC  910s
CRETACEOUS  55e
EON  615e
EPOCH  89s
ERA  1313s
HADEAN  76e
HOLOCENE  87se
JURASSIC  82w
MESOZOIC  1112s
NEOGENE  199s
PALEOGENE  129e
PALEOZOIC  129se
PERIOD  191sw
PLEISTOCENE  67s
PRECAMBRIAN  67se
PROTEROZOIC  77e
TRIASSIC  97se