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Describe How The Earth's History Can Be Interpreted From The Geologic Time Scale

The geologic time scale records Earth's 4.6 billion year history and is divided into units based on fossils and rock layers. It shows major events and changes in life over time, from the earliest organisms to present day. Geologists devised the scale by analyzing rock records and the fossils within to establish periods of similar life forms. Absolute dating techniques now provide specific year ranges for points in the geologic timescale.

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Describe How The Earth's History Can Be Interpreted From The Geologic Time Scale

The geologic time scale records Earth's 4.6 billion year history and is divided into units based on fossils and rock layers. It shows major events and changes in life over time, from the earliest organisms to present day. Geologists devised the scale by analyzing rock records and the fossils within to establish periods of similar life forms. Absolute dating techniques now provide specific year ranges for points in the geologic timescale.

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Subject: Earth and Life Science

Competency:
Describe how the Earth’s history can be interpreted from the geologic time scale

Short Discussion:
 The Earth has a very long history- 4.6 billion years of history. The study of our past, generally
the Earth, requires us to go back in time, millions or even billions of years ago.
 The history of the Earth is typically recorded or embedded in rocks but the rock records is
inherently incomplete. Some ‘events’ do not leave a record or are not preserved. Some of
the rock record may have also been lost through the recycling of rocks (recall the rock cycle).
 Preserved in rocks are fossils or the remains and traces of plants and animals that have lived
 and died throughout the Earth's history. Due to the changes observed in the fossils going
from oldest to youngest sedimentary rocks, geologists devised the geologic time scale.
 The geologic time scale is a record of the major events and diversity of life forms present in
Earth's history. The geologic time scale began when Earth was formed and goes on until the
present. It divides Earth's long history into units of time.
 They used relative dating to divide Earth’s past in several chunks of time when similar
organisms were on Earth. Later, geologists used absolute dating to determine the actual
number of years ago that events happened. Later, scientists used absolute dating to
determine the actual number of years ago that events happened.
 The geologic time scale is divided into eons, eras, periods, and epochs.

Picture 1: Four Major Divisions of Geologic Time Scale


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