WHY IS IT SO LONG GOD Flashcards

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Hadean

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  • First Eon

- Solidifying of earths crust

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Archeozoic

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  • Second Eon
  • First life forms evolve (single-celled organisms)
  • Begins free oxygen in atmosphere
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Proterozoic

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  • Third Eon
  • Multi-celled animals appear
  • Supercontinent Rodinia
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Phanerozoic

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  • Current Eon
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Paleozoic

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  • Era before dinosaurs
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Mesozoic

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  • Era

- “The Age of Reptiles” (dinosaurs)

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Cenozoic

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  • Current Era

- “The Age of Mammals”

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Cambrian

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  • Period

- “The Age of Trilobites”

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Silurian

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  • Period

- First vascular plants (X + P)

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Devonian

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  • Period
  • “The Age of Fishes”
  • First tetrapods and amphibians appear
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Carboniferous

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  • Period

- Where most Fossil Fuels come from

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Permian

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  • Period
  • PANGAEA
  • Largest mass extinction
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Triassic

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  • Period

- First dinosaurs and mammals appear

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Jurassic

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  • Period

- First appearance of Archaeopteryx

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Cretaceous

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  • Period
  • Lower: the heyday of dinosaurs
  • Upper: mass extinction that ends all dinosaurs
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Quaternary

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  • Current Period

- “The Age of Man”

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Pleistocene

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  • Epoch
  • The last ice age
  • Mass extinction of large mammals and many birds
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Holocene

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  • Current Epoch

- Human civilization