Name: Alcazar, Carl Anthony M.

Subject: Earth, Life and Science

Strand: ICT 11-A Teacher: Sir Orillo

Earth Timeline
4 Billion 600 Million years ago

- Earth doesn’t exist this time, but there is a newly form protosun and ring of gas and dust.

4 Billion 540 Million years ago

- Earth is already formed but it’s inhabitable. Sea of molten rock, radioactive materials, and the
temperature reached 4700°C. Instead of air there is Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Water
Vapor. And looks like the end of the world.
- Several million years, a collision with a young planet called Theia the moon gradually formed.
- 6 hours a day.

4 Billion 100 Million years ago - 3 Billion 800 Million years ago

- Late Heavy Bombardment – Hit the Earth with large count of asteroids
- There were already oceans despites its high temperature.
- The asteroids helped the planet gradually become covered by water
- Bombing ended
- Earth’s temperature began to slowly decline
- Current life forms couldn’t survive
- No Oxygen and No Ozone Layer

3 Billion 500 Million years ago

- Fossils from this time found that the life could have arisen much earlier.

3 Billion 200 Million years ago - 2 Billion 800 Million years ago

- The whole planet was occupied by a shallow ocean

- The ocean temperature ranged from 55 to 88 °C
- Microorganisms were already inhabiting this hot water
- The lands are only the volcanic islands.
- The days began to lengthen

2 Billion 500 Million years ago

- Kenorland (First Supercontinent) formed

1 Billion 500 Million years ago

- Earth Day’s lasted for 16 hours.

- Complex Organism still didn’t exist
- Lithospheric plates continued moving and created another supercontinent Rodinia and after
some time Pangea.
650 Million years ago

- Based on theory Earth is like a snowball (Theory Snowball Earth) everything on Earth is
completely covered in ice. Equator is that cold than the modern Antarctica. Earth maintained a
fairly high temperature.
- Carbon Dioxide that released by the volcanoes which accumulated on the atmosphere and
gradually melted the ice glaciers.
- The melting released a huge amount of oxygen that changed the Earth forever.

541 Million years ago

- Cambrian Explosion occurred.

- Temperature rising to 30°C
- A record concentration of oxygen caused a huge number of living organism to emerge.
- Some creatures even developed exoskeleton because of biological diversity.
- All existing animals appeared during this period.
- Length of the day reached 22 hours.

450 Million years ago

- Plant and arthropods began to actively conquer around.

419 Million years ago

- First insect appeared.

300 Million years ago

- Most of Earth was swamps.

- Plants reached 40 meters in height, giant insects fly everywhere and it’s because of high oxygen
concentration.

252 Million years ago

- Permian-Triassic Extinction
- 96% of marine species and 73% of Terrestrial vertebrate extinct.
- Extinction caused by the numerous eruptions, air was filled with ash and carbon dioxide.
- Little sunlight.
- Lava flowing everywhere.
- Dinosaurs replaced the destroyed species.

175 Million years ago

- Pangaea began to breaking up.

- Atlantic Ocean and other oceans appeared.
- The world began taking on its current form.
50 Million years ago

- The power over the planet was then passed on to mammals.

- The length of the day reached almost 24 hours.
- Temperature remain stable near 24°C.

8 Million years ago – 4 Million Years ago

- The ancestors of modern apes began separating from our ancestors.

- Climate on the planet once again changed.

1 Million 400 thousand years ago

- Homo Erectus began to colonize Eurasia

790 thousand years ago

- They already knew how to use fire.

300 thousand years ago

- Homo sapiens appeared and began to populate Earth so actively

130 thousand years ago

- Our ancestors ranged 100 thousand to 300 thousand individuals.

40 thousand years ago

- The expansion of human beings covered almost the entire planet

Today (Present)

- The population is seven billion eight hundred million people and continues to grow.