Development
Cenozoic / Quaternary / Holocene (.01) / Humans develop
"Age of mammals"
Extinction of dinosaurs and
many other species.
Pleistocene (1.8)
Tertiary / Pliocene (5.3)
Miocene (23.8)
Oligocene (33.7)
Eocene (54.8)
Paleocene (65)
Mesozoic / Cretaceous (144) / "Age of Reptiles" / First flowering plants
First birds
Dinosaurs dominant.
Jurassic (206)
Triassic (248)
Paleozoic / Permian (290) / "Age of Amphibians" / Extinction of trilobites and many other marine animals
Record of First Fossil of Fern
First reptiles
Large coal swamps
Large Amphibians abundant.
Carboniferous: Pennyslvanian (323)
Carboniferous: Mississippian (354)
Devonian (417) / "Age of Fishes" / First insect fossils
Fishes dominant
First land plants
Silurian (443)
Ordovician (490) / "Age of Invertebrates" / First fishes
Trilobites dominant
First organisms with shells
Cambrian (540)
Precambrian - comprises about 88% of geologic time (4500) / First multicellular organisms
First one-celled organisms
Origin of Earth
What are trilobites?
Trilobites are an extinct group of arthropods (jointed-legged animals) known from more than 10,000 fossil species.
The group Trilobita existed from early in the Cambrian Period (520 million years ago) until the end of the Permian Period (250 million years ago).The name Trilobita is derived from the three (tri-) lobed structure of the exoskeleton, which has a raised central lobe (or axis) and a pair of side lobes, called Pleurae.
Ferns first appear in the fossil record in the early-Carboniferous period.
By the Triassic, the first evidence of ferns related to several modern families appeared.
Year 10 EvolutionName: ______
Answer the questions based on the Geological Time Scale
- What does the geologic time scale represent?
______ - Scientists have devised the Geologic Time Chart so that Time can be understood from the largest and most general intervals, or units, to the smallest, most specific intervals.
Arrange these geological time intervals from largest to smallest:
periods eons epochs eras
- How old is our Earth? ______
- What is the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells? Give examples.
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______ - Fill in the table with information about Era’s (using the information below)
1. Precambrian Era (earliest forms of life, such as bacteria and blue-green algae; later in the period, invertebrates such as jellyfish).
2. Paleozoic Era (Pangaea; invertebrate life, such as trilobites, later in the era, followed by development of vertebrates, including fish; development of vertebrates, amphibians, and the beginnings of reptiles; development of simple plants, such as mosses and ferns)
3. Mesozoic Era (Pangaea separates into continents; "Age of Reptiles"; dinosaurs, flowering plants, small mammals and birds)
4. Cenozoic (Present Era) Ice Age; mammoths; gradual development of mammals, birds and other animals recognizable today; humans; flowering plants, forests, grasslands.)
More:
Era / Meaning / Duration / Examples of life
- Which periods did Dinosaurs live on Earth?
______ - Arrange the animals in terms of evolution from the oldest to the youngest.
reptiles, invertebrates, bacteria, fish, mammals, amphibians, birds
______ - Give 2 differences between amphibians and reptiles in terms of their evolution and living habitats.
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______ - Which type of plant was the first land plant? Conifers, Angiosperms, Mosses and Ferns
______ - Arrange these 4 types of plants in order of primitive to most recently evolved.
Conifers, Angiosperms, Mosses and Ferns
______ - How could plants like Conifers, Ferns and Conifers grow bigger in size compared to mosses?
______ - Explain why insects have evolved most successfully to colonise the Earth?
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- In Ordovician Period, trilobites became dominant. What type of animal did trilobites belong to? How long did they live on Earth?
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- When did first human evolve on Earth?
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- When did mammal start to evolve?
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