GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE & Evolution of theories

Question 1

• Most of the Earth’s
  changes have occured
  over a million of years.

Affected by catastrophes (Massive Volcanic erruption and
Meteors hitting)

this events play a HUGE role in shaping the Earth’ s surface and
evolution of life.

Answer 1

GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE

Question 2

DIVISION OF GTS

Answer 2

EONS
ERAS & PERIOD
EPOCH

Question 2

• Largest block of time. A period that is equivalent to a billion years.
• Greek word means ‘age’

Answer 2

EONS

Question 3

Eons are divided
into smaller blocks

Answer 3

ERAS

Question 4

Eras are divided into smaller blocks

Answer 4

PERIOD

Question 5

The smallest block of time

Answer 5

EPOCH

Question 6

IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE

Answer 6

Geological Processs
(water and continents
formation)

Life forms and
biodiversity

Question 7

• The change in the characteristics of a species over several generation and a product of natural selection

Answer 7

Evolution

Question 8

He has critical view on how characters from parents to offspring were moving.

Answer 8

JEAN BAPTISTELAMARCK

Question 9

Theories of JEAN BAPTISTE LAMARCK

Answer 9

Theory of use and disuse
Inheritance of acquired characteristic

Question 10

He stated that the evolution
happens through natural
selection. Stating that all
species of organisms arise and
develop and has the ability to
compete, survive, and reproduce

Answer 10

CHARLES DARWIN

Question 11

Parts of Natural Selection

Answer 11

Over production
Genetic Variation
Survival of the fittest
Diffential Reproduction

Question 12

have identical theories in
evolution

Answer 12

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace