History Of Planet Earth

Question 1

What is the age of the universe ?

Answer 1

13.7 billion years

Question 2

What is the age of the earth?

Answer 2

4.5 billion years old

Question 3

What happens on January 1?

Answer 3

The earth as a planet

Question 4

What happens early in February ?

Answer 4

The surface of the earth cools down and starts to solidly
Formation of the Canadian Shield Oldest dated rocks found near Hudson Bay in northern Quebec

Question 5

What happens March 1 ?

Answer 5

Condensation of atmospheric water into oceans

Question 6

What happens April 1?

Answer 6

First Marine Life ( single celled organisms)

Question 7

What happens at the beginning of June?

Answer 7

Formation of Abitibi ( Two tectonic plates collide = volcanic activity = rock rich in minerals such as Copper, Nickel, Gold)

Question 8

What happens August 1?

Answer 8

First Eukaryotes ( cell with nucleus)

Question 9

What happens November 6?

Answer 9

First multicellular life ( Nov 1 to Nov 15 there are several ice ages)

Question 10

What happens November 15?

Answer 10

Theory of snowball Earth: Earth frozen all the way to the Equator ( one of several ice ages)
Cambrian explosion of life

Question 11

What happens on the third week of November ?

Answer 11

The Laurentians are as high as the Himalaya

Question 12

What happens on November 22?

Answer 12

Formation of Uluru (Ayer’s rock in Australia)

Question 13

What happens on the last 10 days of November ?

Answer 13

First land plants, fish, and insects
Southern Quebec lies within the Tropics

Question 14

What happens on December 1 ?

Answer 14

Age of fishes;
First land four-legged animals ( fossils found in Poland);
Carboniferous giant forests ( some of today’s oil);
Formation of the Appalachiens
A meteorite falls in Charlevoix

Question 15

What happens on December 10?

Answer 15

Third mass extinction: only 5% of all species survive

Question 16

What happens on December 14?

Answer 16

A meteorite falls in Manicouagan

Question 17

What happens in December 15?

Answer 17

Formation of the Rockies; Birth of the Atlantic Ocean

Question 18

What happens mid-December?

Answer 18

Apparition of mosquitoes

Question 19

What happens from December 15 to 22?

Answer 19

First mammals, birds and dinosaurs

Question 20

What happens on December 20?

Answer 20

First flowering plants

Question 21

What happens from December 19 to 26?

Answer 21

Age of the dinosaurs: Jurassic period

Question 22

What happens on December 25

Answer 22

Formation of the Himalayas; Asteroid impact and last of the 5 mass extinctions: no land animals over 35kg survived

Question 23

What happens on December 26?

Answer 23

Increase by 5 to 10°C of the Earth’s surface temperature and increase to 2000 parts per million of the concentration of CO2 gases ( today = 400 parts per million)

Question 24

What happens on December 28?

Answer 24

Newly born and quickly expanding coral reef draw volumes of CO2 from the atmosphere, cooling the climate

Question 25

What happens on December 30?

Answer 25

Decline of widespread rainforests and formation of Iceland

Question 26

What happens on December 31 at the different time: 16:00 17:00 17:00 From 20:00 23:57’30 23:58’50 23:59’00 23:59’45 23:59’57

Answer 26

Human-like animals evolve: Ardi in Ethiopia Lucy in Eastern Africa Formation of the Galápagos Islands Beginning of successive Ice Ages End of last glaciation: Canada is under a thick sheet of ice Beginning of civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China: cities, writings… Slow extinction of the mammoth Height of the Roman Empire Columbus “discovers” America

Question 27

How are rocks formed before the beginning of multicellular life called?

Answer 27

Precambrian rochs

Question 28

What is the special trait of these rocks?

Answer 28

They are the cores or backbones of all continents

Question 29

The ancient shields are great masses of…

Answer 29

Igneous and metamorphic rocks characterized by their lack of fossils but showing signs of erosion for long periods

Question 30

What brings does rock to today’s society ?

Answer 30

They are places of great mineral ressources: gold,silver, cobalt

Question 31

What is 4cm wider every year?

Answer 31

The Atlantic Ocean

Question 32

At what rate are the Himalayas growing?

Answer 32

They are growing at a rate of 5cm per year

Question 33

What is the estimated time needed for the atmosphere to “recover” from the current increase of the greenhouse gases and rise of temperature?

Answer 33

One million years