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The Geological Time Scale
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8th Grade
10/28/2008

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When was the earth created?
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4.5 billion years ago
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When did homo sapiens show up on the Earth?
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40,000 years ago
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When did homo erectus live?

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1.6 million years ago
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When did the ice age take place?
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2 million years ago
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Who or what roamed the land during the ice age?

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Animals such as woolly mammoths and huge camels roamed the land.
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When and where did the primative human, Lucy, live?
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3.5 million years ago in Africa
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When did the last dinosaurs live?
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About 66 million years ago
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When did the first dinosaurs live?

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245 million years ago
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What era started 66 mya to 245 mya?
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The Mesozoic Era
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What era started from now back to 66 mya?
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The Cenozoic Era
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What does Mesozoic mean?
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"middle life"
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What does Cenozoic mean?

 

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It means the "Age of Mammals"
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When did the great extinction ( more than 90% of all species of Marine life disappeared )

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At the end of of what geologists call the Paleozoic era the period of "ancient life"
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When did the Paleozoic begin and end?

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It began 570 mya and ended 245 mya

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When did complex life come into being?

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around 600 million years ago
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What is the oldest life indentified form fossics so far
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a form of bacteria
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How old is first life bacteria?

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3.5 bya
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