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The History of Earth

  • Earth is Formed
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    Earth is Formed

    4600 million years ago
    Gravity slowly gathered this gas and dust together into clumps that became asteroids and small early planets.
  • 1st multicellular life
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    1st multicellular life

    3,500 million years ago, more complex forms of life took longer to evolve.
  • Oxygen enters atmosphere
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    Oxygen enters atmosphere

    2,450 million years ago, oxygen was becoming a significant component of earths atmosphere.
  • 1st Eukaryotes
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    1st Eukaryotes

    2,100 million years ago, some of the earliest known single called eukaryotes fossils are acritatchs.
  • 1st Homo sapiens
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    1st Homo sapiens

    1,800 million years ago, the first Homo sapiens were on earth.
  • 1st forms of life
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    1st forms of life

    1,300 million years ago, earths initial life forms were bacteria, which could survive in the highly toxic atmosphere that existed during this time.
  • Pangea Formed
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    Pangea Formed

    270 million years ago, all the continents were together.
  • Pangea begins to break up

    Pangea begins to break up

    200 million years ago, Pangea begins to break apart.
  • 5 Major Mass Extinctions

    5 Major Mass Extinctions

    -Ordovician
    -Late Devonian
    -Permian Mass
    -Triassic
    -Cretaceous