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The History of Life on Earth Flashcards

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Highest atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

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Precambrian

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Lowest atmospheric Carbon Dioxide concentration

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Quaternary

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Lowest atmospheric oxygen concentration ( in the past 500 - million years)

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Triassic

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Lowest sea levels

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Permian and Triassic

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Supercontinent that existed from the late Paleozoic (335 may) until the Mesozoic era (175 may) when it broke apart

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Pangaea

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The southern region of the Pangaea supercontinent

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Gondwana

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Precambrian supercontinent that formed roughly 1.3 bya and broke up around 630mya, causing the Snowball Earth event

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Rodinia

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The northern region of the Pangaea supercontinent

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Laurasia

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From igneous rock to metamorphic

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Heat and pressure

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From magma to igneous rock

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Cooling

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From metamorphic rock to sediments

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Weathering & Erosion

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From sediments to sedimentary rock

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Compaction and cementation

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From metamorphic rock to magma

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Melting

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Teritary and Quaternary periods

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Cenozoic era

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Proterozoic, Archaean and Hadean eons

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The “precambrian “

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Ordovician, Carboniferous and Permian periods

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Paleozoic era

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Miocene and Pliocene epochs

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Neogene period

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The age of amphibians

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Carboniferous period

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The age of fishes

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Devonian period

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The age of mammals

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Cenozoic era

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The ice age

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Pleistocene epoch

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The _______ Explosion

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Cambrian period

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The age of reptiles

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Mesozoic era

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The Agee of man (The Anthropocene)

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Holocene Epoch

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Multi-cellular Eukaryotic life appears on Earth

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This period is dominated by the diversification of the first terrestrial vascular plants

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A massive asteroid impact causes an extinction event that kills nearly all dinosaur species ( except birds)

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The sun and solar system, including Earth forms

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Changes to the pH of Earth cause a sudden decrease in Fungal species, leading to reduces decomposition of plants. This results in the formation of fossil fuel deposits.

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Glaciation events cause the Earth to rapidly warm and cool in cycles as the first humans spread out of Africa

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The Cambrian explosion leads to a massive adaptive radiation of all animal species

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The Snowball Earth event results in a mass extinction

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