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Geological history Flashcards

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What are the Eons in order from present to past

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Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean, Hadean

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What are the eras of the Phanerozoic eon?

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Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic

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What are the periods of the Cenozoic era?

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Quaternary, neogene, paleogene

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What are the periods of the Mesozoic era?

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Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic

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What are the periods of the Paleozoic era?

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Permian, Carboniferous, Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician, Cambrian

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What happened during the Quaternary period?

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Origin of modern humans

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What happened during the Neogene period?

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Diversification of mammals

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What happened during the Cretaceous period?

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First insects

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What happened during the Jurassic period?

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Modern fish diversify

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What happened during the Triassic period?

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Diversification of dinosaurs

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What happened during the hadean era?

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Formation of earth

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What happened during the archean era?

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Origin of life

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What happened during the Carboniferous period?

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Plants form large forests

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What happened during the Devonian period?

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Vertibretes colonize land and fungi diversify

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Order epoch, era, period, and eon from past to present

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Eon, Era, Period, Epoch

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What happened during the Cretaceous period?

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Dinosaurs went extinct

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What happened during the Jurassic period?

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First birds

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What happened during the Silurian period?

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First vascular land plants

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