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Mesozoic era
Geometric time
Mesoarchean era
Archean eon
Relative dating
Epochs
Eons
Absolute dating
Cenozoic era
Ages
Activity 2:
Event Relative Dating Absolute Dating
1. Best known for ushering Paleozoic Era 542 million years ago to 251
in an explosion of life million years ago
on earth.
2. The point at which Archean Eon 4.6 billion to 541 million years
earth began to form. ago
3. The modern Cenozoic era 66 million years ago and
configuration and extending to the present
geographic positions
and during which
earth’s flora and fauna
evolved.
4. Middle life era. Life Mesozoic Era 252 million to about 66 million
diversified rapidly and years ago
giant reptiles, dinosaurs
and other monstrous
beasts roamed the
earth.
5. The major super- Neoproterozoric Era 1 billion to 541 million years
continental ago
reconfigurations,
climatically its deepest
ever glacial freeze, and
geochemically some of
the most anomalous
perturbations on record
Guide Questions:
1. Yes, because living go through in transformative changes thus, it has a big role in geologic time
scales.
2. Cenozoic Era, obviously it is in absolute dating 66 million years ago until now.
Activity 3:
Reflection:
I understood that geologic time scale has an enormous role on the things that are being developed on
earth, in light of the fact that without it, there wouldn't be advancement of these things.
Part 2 of Week 6:
Activity 2:
5. AUUHTBYSR
1Bathyurus 1 symmetry
Pointed
pleurae 1 Ordovician Paleozoic
1 2
6. OOISNTM Monotis Radially striate Triassic Mesozoic
7. AAOIEPRDXDS Paradoxides Pointed spines Cambrian Land plants 10:32
Paleozoic
8. IOUCDLCYTSST Dictyoclostus With lines, Pennsylvanian Paleozoic
grooves, and
finely develop
9. 9
EEAAIVNRCRDI
spines
Venericardia Thorn-like
shell
3
Tertiary Cenozoic
4
shell
Guide Questions:
8 Insects 19:28
1. Leptodus, Cactocrinus,
Bathyurus, Paradoxides,
7 6 5 Amphibians 22:38
Dictyoclostus
2. So we can identify how index fossils went through.
Dinosaurs 36:00 3. So we can determine which is
which. Birds 43:41
Reptiles 25:16
Activity 3:
1. Bathyurus
2. It only lived in a short period of time
3. Ordovician/ Paleozoic
2:
1. Trophites
2. It only lived in the same outcrop/ only appeared once in all outcrops
3. Triassic/ Mesozoic