PLANET EARTH THROUGH THE

AGE
PALE ORANGE Scientists think Earth was
HISTORY
OF THE
DOT formed at roughly the
.. 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago during same time as the sun and
the archean era, atmospheric haze
other planets some 4.6
might have made earth pale orange

EARTH
billion years ago when the
instead of pale blue. A haze possibly
caused by micro-organism. solar system coalesced
from a giant, rotating
SNOWBALL cloud of gas and dust
EARTH known as the solar
630 million years ago the planet nebula. As the nebula
might have been almost completely
collapsed under the force
covered in ice, though perhaps with
slushy oceanic openings near the
of its own gravity, it spun
equator faster and flattened into a
disk. Most of the material
DINOSAUR in that disk was then
ERA pulled toward the center
252 to 66 million years ago, Even
to form the sun.
after the continents and oceans
took on a more modern look,
their shapes were very different
in earlier
2.6 million epochs.
to 11,700 years ago. By
the onset of the most recent ice age
THE LAST
during the pleistocene era the
ICE AGE
continents had, for the most part,
assumed their present shapes and
positions, but large parts of the
surface were covered in glacial ice.
KRISHA REINNE S. PINERA
11-ABM
Other particles within the disk MODULE-1 (Evolving Cocept of
PRESENT DAY collided and stuck together to form
EARTH Life Based on erging pieces of
11,700 years ago to now. The ever-larger bodies, including Earth. evidence)
holocene ara has seen the Scientists think Earth started off as a
expansion of human civilization waterless mass of rock.
across the planet, and the rise of
advanced technology.
 The history of Earth covers
approximately 4 billion years
(4,567,000,000 years), from Earth’s
formation out of the solar nebula to the
present.

According to exoplanets.nasa.gov
article, Earth hasn’t always looked like
the blue orb we know so well. The
variety of contending creatures that
have come and gone over billions of
years, in a sense, paints a picture of the
many planets Earth has been: a lava-
covered rock with a poisonous
atmosphere, an ocean world with the
bare beginnings of microbial life, a
steaming tropical riot of earth-shaking
dinosaurs, or an Ice Age expanse where
cave-dwelling humans hunted
mammoths.

The Planet Earth is the fifth-largest planet HISTORY OF THE EARTH

of the solar system and the third in order of
position from the sun. It is an oblate The history of Earth concerns the
spheroid, being slightly flattened at the development of planet Earth from its
poles. formation to the present day.

Scientists estimate the age of some rocks Earth formed as part of the birth of the solar
as being three and a half billion years, and system: what eventually became the solar
the earth itself as being about four to four system initially existed as a large, rotating
and a half billion or more years. cloud of dust and gas.

The planet’s coming into existence is It was composed of hydrogen and helium
recounted in the Bible with the simple produced in the Big Bang, as well as heavier
statement: “In the beginning God created elements produced by stars long gone.
the heavens and the earth.”