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History Of The Earth

  • Earth Formed

    Earth Formed
    Earth Formed- 4.6 billion years ago:
    By collisons in the giant disc-shaped cloud of material that also formed the sun.
  • Oxygen enters atmosphere

    Oxygen enters atmosphere
    oxygen enters the atmosphere-2.4 billion years ago:
    Once iron in the ocean was used up.The irson oxide stopped being deposited and oxygen was able to start building up in the atmosphere.
  • 1st Eukaryotes

    1st Eukaryotes
    1st Eukaryotes- 2.1 billion years ago:
    1st Eukaryotes are descendea from formerly free-living prokaryotic organisms.
  • 1st form of life

    1st form of life
    1st form of life- 1 billion years ago:
    Processes by which living and fossil organisms have evolved since the 1st form of life.
  • Cretaceous Mass Extinction

    Cretaceous Mass Extinction
    1st Mass Extinction- 66 million year ago:
    Death of the dinosaurs.
  • 1st multicellular life

    1st multicellular life
    1st Multicellular life- 600 million year ago:
    Simpler unicellular microbes was a pivotal moment in the history of biology on earth and has arastically reshaped the planets ecology.
  • Ordovican Mass Extinction

    Ordovican Mass Extinction
    2nd Mass Extinction- 444 million years ago:
    It was sea creatures such as trilobites and brachiopods that were drastically reduced in numbers.
  • Devonian Mass Extinction

    Devonian Mass Extinction
    3rd Mass Extinction- 375 Million years ago:
    Life in shallow seas were the worst affected. Reefs were gone and new types of coral evolved.
  • Pangaea formed

    Pangaea formed
    Pangaea formed- 300 million year ago:
    Dry land on earth was joined into one huge land mass.
  • Permian Mass Extinction

    Permian Mass Extinction
    4th Major Mass Extinction-251 million years ago:
    96% of species died out.
  • Pangaea begins to break up

    Pangaea begins to break up
    Pangaea begins to break up- 270 million year ago: Was a supercontinent that existed during the late paleozoic and early mesozok era.
  • Triassic Mass Extinction

    Triassic Mass Extinction
    5th Major Mass Extinction-200 Million years ago:
    Climate changes, flood eruption and asteroid.
  • 1st Homo Sapiens

    1st Homo Sapiens
    1st Homo sapiens-200,000 years ago:
    Did not come after the neandertais but were their contemporaries.