Timeline Quiz
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Big Bang
• 14 bya • explosion • expansion
Matter
all matter was formed a few seconds after BB
1st stars
• 13bya - fusion
Milky way
• 10bya • spiral • stars,planets • gravity
Solar system
• 5bya • 8 planets • rocky and gaseous
Sun
• 4.6 bya - middle of solar system
T-tauri phase
• “shedding” - particles swept away by solar wind
Inner planets
• 4.4 bya • Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars • rocky, heavier elements
Outer plantets
• 4.4 bya • Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune • gaseous
moon
• 500,000 after earth - colossion theory
core
4.35 bya molten iorn
early atmosphere
• 4.4-4.0 bya - ligheter elements
secondary atmosphere
• 4.0-3.3 bya - volcanic gas
living atmosphere
• 3.3 bya - present - photosynthesis= +o2 -co2
oceans
• meteors/volcanic condensation - life
land
• molten • rock=3.8 bya • continents= 2.5bya
life
• 3.5 bya - humans 200,000ya
Eons
• Hadean (Earth forms - 3.8 bya) • Archean (3.8-2.5 bya) • Proterzoic (2.5 bya - 542 mya) • Phanerozoic (542 mya - present)