Formation of Earth Review

James Hutton is known as the father of modern geology. What did he suggest about earths age?

What life form begins to dominate the Earth 10 million years after the dinosaurs?

4.0 bya, Pillow Lava was forming in Earth's early oceans. How did these oceans form?

3.3 bya, How did primitive life forms change our planet?

250 mya, Pangea is home to enormous insects, and animals! Why are they extinct?

700 mya, Life is pushed to the brink of extinction. How did super-continent Rodinia cause this?

500-300 mya Life becomes more complex! Life moves onto land! How is this possible?

3.4 bya, What did granite contribute to the planet?

What will likely hapen to earth 2 billion years in the future?

True or False? Earth's continents are in a continual (but very slow) state of movement?

What did earth look like 4.4 billion years ago, shortly after forming?

650 mya, How did Snowball Earth end?

2.5 bya, How did stromatolites affect earths atmosphere turning the planet blue?

65 mya, Dinosaurs were thriving! Then double trouble! What occured to cause their extinction?

About how long ago did the last ice age end?

What evidence supports the violent collisions of meteors forming Earth 4.5 bya?