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The Geologic Time Scale is a Record of Life Forms and Geologic Events in Earths History.

The document provides an overview of the Geologic Time Scale, detailing Earth's history divided into eons, eras, periods, and epochs. It highlights significant geological events and the evolution of life, including the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. The document also includes a pre-test with questions related to the concepts discussed.

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The Geologic Time Scale is a Record of Life Forms and Geologic Events in Earths History.

The document provides an overview of the Geologic Time Scale, detailing Earth's history divided into eons, eras, periods, and epochs. It highlights significant geological events and the evolution of life, including the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. The document also includes a pre-test with questions related to the concepts discussed.

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pre-test

1. What does the geological time 3. What is the time when dinosaurs
scale show? lived?
A. The age of the Earth A. Ice Age
B. The size of planets B. Mesozoic Era
C. The weather today C. Stone Age
D. The number of earthquakes D. Modern Time
2. Which is the longest time in 4. What era do humans live in now?
Earth's history? A. Mesozoic
A. Hour B. Paleozoic
B. Day C. Cenozoic
C. Year D. Precambrian
D. Eon
pre-test

5. What do scientists study to learn 7. Which is the oldest time in Earth's


about Earth’s past? history?
A. Fossils A. Precambrian
B. Clouds B. Mesozoic
C. Rain C. Cenozoic
D. Trees D. Ice Age
6. What happened to the dinosaurs? 8. What do fossils tell us?
A. They went to space A. What ancient plants and animals
B. They turned into robots looked like
C. They became extinct B. What the weather is today
D. They still exist today C. What food we should eat
D. What the moon is made of
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9. Which animals first appeared 10. What caused the end of the
during the Paleozoic Era? Mesozoic Era?
A. Dinosaurs A. A big flood
B. Fish and small sea animals B. A volcanic eruption
C. Elephants C. A huge asteroid
D. Birds D. A strong typhoon
The Earth
Through
Time
An Introduction to Geologic
Time Scale
Lesson Agenda
01 03
Introduction Eras
An introduction to the concept of A discussion of the eras under the
Geologic Time Scale, including its Phanerozoic Eon, namely the
definition and significance in earth Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic
history eras
02 04
Eons Periods
A discussion of the important eons in A discussion of the numerous periods
the time scale: Precambrian (Hadean, of the three major geological eras
Archean, and Proterozoic) and
Phanerozoic
Introduction
What is Geologic Time Scale?

• The Geologic Time Scale is a


record of life forms and geologic
events in Earth’s history.
• Earth has a very long history.
Years and centuries are not very
helpful for such a long history.
So scientists use the geologic
time scale for Earth’s history.
Introduction
What is Geologic Time Scale?

• The geologic time scale is a record


of how Earth and its life forms have
changed through time. For example,
the scale shows when life first
appeared on Earth.

• In the geologic time scale, time is


divided into bigger blocks than years
or centuries. The scale begins when
division of Geologic
Time
• Earth has a very long history. Years and centuries are
not very helpful for such a long history. So scientists
use the geologic time scale for Earth’s history.
• The geologic time scale is a record of how Earth and
its life forms have changed through time. For example,
the scale shows when life first appeared on Earth.
• In the geologic time scale, time is divided into bigger
blocks than years or centuries. The scale begins when
Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago and goes to the
division of Geologic
Time
• The geologic time scale is divided into
eons, eras, periods, and epochs.
Unlike divisions of time such as days
or minutes, the divisions of the
geologic time scale have no fixed
lengths. Instead, they are based on
changes or events recorded in rocks
and fossils.
• The largest unit of
time is an eon. An
eon is an extremely
long, indefinite
period of time.
• Earth’s 4.6-billion-year
history is divided into
Precambrian time
and three eras:
Paleozoic, Mesozoic,
& Cenozoic.
• Each era is subdivided into a
number of periods. For
example, the Paleozoic Era is
divided into six periods. The
Cambrian Period is important
because it is the first period
after Precambrian Time.
• The periods of the
Cenozoic, the most
recent era, are
further divided into
epochs.
we live in
cenozoic era
• ! Earth is in
Present day
the Cenozoic era and
the Quaternary period
in the Holocene epoch.
• Geologic time has NOT
ended!!!!!
Precambrian Time at 4.6
Billion Years Ago
• This period is MOST of
Earth’s history.For nearly 4
billion years, during most of
Precambrian time, no plants or
animals existed.
Multicellular organisms
develop late in the
Precambrian.
Paleozoic Era at 544 Million
Years Ago
• LIFE EXPLODES! At the
beginning of the Paleozoic
era, all life lived in the
oceans. Early invertebrates
developed and later reptiles
became dominant on land. Early
plant included simple mosses,
ferns, and cone-bearing plants.
Mesozoic Era at 245 to 65
Million Years Ago

(Age of the
Reptile/Dinosaurs)
Dinosaurs lived along with
the first mammals, birds,
and flowering
plants.Reptiles were
dominant.
Cenozoic Era 65 mya to
Present Day
The first humans appeared in
the later part of the Cenozoic
era, which continues today. The
diversity of life forms increased.
New mammals and birds
appeared while other became
extinct. Flowering plants
became most common.
Thank You
For
Listening

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