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THE TEACHER DEMONSTRATES KNOWLEDGE OF EARTH HISTORY
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EARTH HISTORY
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IMPORTANT WORDS OF EARTH COMPS
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SOLAR NEBULA
PRIMORDIAL ATMOSPHERE PLATE TECTONICS SUPERCONTIENT GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE RADIOMETRIC DATING FOSSILIZATION SUPERPOSTITION+ CORRELATIVE |
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DESCRIBER 1
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THE EARTH FORMED APPROXIMATELY 4.6 BILLION YEARS AGO AND BOTH geological and biolgical processes have been shading it ever since
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describor 2
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teh history of the earth can be subdivied into units of time according to geological and biological processes: these subdivisions called Geological time scale
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descriptor 3
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the study of fossils, rock stratigraphy and radiometric dating have contributed to creating teh geiological time scale
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based avaiblabe evidence
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earth is belived to have formed 4.6 billion years ago IN THE sOLAR NEBULA
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SOLAR NEBULA
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A CLOUD OF HOT GAS, ALONG WITH ThE sUN AND OTHER PLANETS.
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INITAIALLY MOLTEN (LIQUID)
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OUTER LAYER PLANENT COOLED
-WHEN WATER BEGAN TO COOL -WATER BECAME COOLING IN ATMOSPHERE -RESLUTING THE SOLID CRUST -MOON FORMED AFTER, POSSIBLE THE RESULT OF IMPACT WITH ANOHTHER SPACE OBJECT |
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THE PHENOMENA CALLED OUTGASSING
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THE SLOW RELEASE OF GAS FROM THE INSIDE OF THE PLANET) AND THE RELEASE OF GAS FROM THE INSIDE OF THE PLANET
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THE RELEASE OF CAS FROM VOLCANIC ACTIVITY PRODUCED BY
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THE PRIMORDIAL ATMOSPHERE (THAT LACKED OXYGEN): CONDESING WATER VAPOR PRODUCED THE OCEAN
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ORGIN OF THE EARTH
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THREMODUS AMOUNTS OF ENERGY PRESENT EARLY EARTH
-PRESENDS OF WATER BELIEVED TO HAVE SUITIABLE CONDITIONS FOR CREATION OF SELFREPLICATIONG 4 BILLIOIN YRS AG, AND HALF A BILLION YR LATER -COMMEN ANCESTOR OF ALL LIVED |
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A) THE ORGIN OF THE EARTH CONT
PLATE TETONICS |
100+ MILLION YRS CONTINENTS FORMED
-BROKE UP FOR THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH -CONTINUE RESHAPED ITSELF DUE TO THE PROCESS |
PLATE TRONICS
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CONINENTS MIGRATED ACROSS
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SURFACE ON EARTH
-OCCASION COMBINE FORM OF SUPRCONTINET |
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ROUGHLY 75O MILLIONSYRS AGO
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THE EARLIEST KNOWN AS SUPERCONTINETN RODIAN BENAN BREAKING APART
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RODINIA
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A SUPERONTENINT AT ONE POINE
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CONTIENTS COMBINED FORM
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PANNOTIEA 600-450 MILL YARS AGO
-PANGEA BROKE APART 180 MILL YRS AGO |
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE-HISTORY OF THE EARTH
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BROKEN UP INTO TIME INTERVALS, COOLECTIVILY CALLED THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE-SOME OF THE MAJOR DIVISIONS IS
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EON
ERA PERIOND EPOCH AGE |
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE-EPOCH
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a distinctive historical period or era
a unit of the geologic time scale, less than a period and greater than an age a phase in the development of the universe with distinctive properties |
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE-GEOLOGICAL TIME DIVISIONS BASED ON
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GEOLOGICAL/BIOLOGICAL EVENTS AND INFORMATION USED CONSTRUCT IME SCALE TAKEN FROM THE STUDY OF STRATIGRAPHY
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
STRATIGRAPHY |
THE STUDY OF THE LAYERS OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
RADIOMetric dating |
TEH RADIOMETRIC DATING OF ROCKS, AND THE ANALYSIS OF FOSSILS
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE-
RADIOMetric dating |
the dating of materials by analyzing the decay of radioactive isotopes incorpoerated them when they were formed
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE-fossilazation
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we saw sedimetary roks formed, while particles accumulate, living things theri traces get buried in process
-which increase pressure & chemical changes, particles compressed into rocks and traces of life are trapped with become fossils |
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE-TEH TYPES FOSSIL SPECIES PRESENT
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ROCK FORMATIONS ALLOW SCIENTISTS
-U WHAT PARTICULAR CONDITIONS PRESENT AT PARTICULAR TIMES IN EARTH HISTORY - |
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B) THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE-RADIOMETRIC DECAY WITH PRINCIPLES OF
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RADIOMETRIC DECAY AND PRINCIPLES OF (SUPERPOSITION/CORRELATIONS WILL AID SCIENTIST DATING FOSSILS
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SUPER POSITION AND CORRELATIONS
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-CONSEPT OF SUPERPOSITION STATES IN AN UNDISTURBED HORIZONTIAL SEQUENCE OF ROCKS
-OLD ROCKS ON BOTTEM, NEWEST ON TOP |
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SUPER POSITION AND CORRELATIONS (PART 2)
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-PRINCIPLE HOLDS TRUE ALL ROCK FORMATIONS ON THE PLANET:
-IF A SEQUENCE IS DISTRUBED INCOMPLETE -SCIENTES CAN CORRELATE PART OF SEQUENCE THEY HAVE SOME OTHER ROCK FORMATION TO FILL IN OTHER MISSING PARTS |
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THE TEACHER DEMOS
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-KNOWLEDGE OF EARTH HISTORY AND PROCESS THAT SHAPED THE EARTH
-TEACHER U THE ORGIN AND APPLS OF THE GEOLOGIC Time AND BASIC CONCEPTS WHICH SCIENTIS USED TO CONSTRUCT IT |
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