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.
