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1) What happened at 12 AM January 1, 2004? earth formed

2) What happened at 4:41 PM February, 25 2004?

Inferred origin of life (first cells)

3) How long of actual time happened between the event in question one and two? 700 hundred years.

4) What happen at 3:39 PM September 3, 2004? First multi-celled organisms (seaweed and algae)

5) What happened at 7:40 PM November 21, 2004?

6) What happened at 1:27PM December 2, 2004?

7) What happened at 12:09 PM December 12, 2004? End of Paleozoic, 96% of all life on Earth perishes

8) What happened at 8:37 PM December 13, 2004? First dinosaurs (Eoraptor and Saltoposuchus)

9) What happened at 7:52 PM December 26, 2004? End of Mesozoic, probably meteor or comet impact

10) What happened at 5:18 PM December 31, 2004? Oldest human like ancestors (hominids)

11) What happened at 11:48 PM December 31, 2004? First modern man, Homo sapiens

12) What happened at 12:00 AM January 1, 2005? World War II

13) How long of actual time happened between the event in question 11 and 12? 59 yrs

14) How old is the Earth? 4.6 billion years old.

15) On the chart how many years are represented by one second

1 sec = 146 years.

big bang

1) About how long ago did the big bang take place?  at the beginning of the universe around 13.7 billion years ago  2) What is a black hole? Black holes are areas of intense gravitational pressure. 3) Does the universe continue to expand?  yes  4) Was there really a big bang? i dont think so but sciencetests aperantly do think there really was a big bang 5) What light elements seem to support the Big Bang Theory?  a little fireball appearing somewhere in space.

1) What is the current calendar most of the world uses / accepts? Explain who made it and why this is accepted.

The Gregorian calendar it was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII

2) What is a leap year? A year with an extra day, February 29, added to make up the difference between the 365-day calendar and the actual duration of the Earth's orbit of the Sun. Leap years occur every four years, except for years ending in 00 that are not divisible by 400. 3) List three other types of calendars used and how they set up their calendar (ex. Lunar).

Creaser calendar, The Javanese calendar and lunar 4) what is BC?

Before Christ 5) what is BCE? Before Common Era 6) what is AD?

Anno Domini 7) what is CE? Common Era 8) what is MYA?

Millions of years ago 9) According to the timeline site how many periods of when are there and list time. Big Bang • Bronze Age • Byzantine • Cambrian • Enlightenment • First Settlements • Formation Earth• Hellenistic Age • Ice Age• Industrial Age • Iron Age • Mesozoic • Middle Ages • Permian • Reformation • Renaissance• Roman Age • Stone Age • Future

10) What is an eon, epoch, era, and age? Eons can range from hundreds of millions to more than a billion years. Eons are subdivided into eras, which are intervals of tens to hundreds of millions of years. A period may be tens of millions of years long. 11) List three ancient calendars the ancient Mayas, the Roman calendar, stone hedge 12) List two ancient clocks and how they worked. A water clock or clepsydra is any timepiece in which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel where the amount is then measured. 13) What was a revolution of timekeeping? Making clocks14) What allows for standard more accurate clocks? 4.6 years ago 15) what are time zones? Given a 24 hour day and 360 degrees of longitude around the earth, it is obvious that the world's 24 time zones have to be 15 degrees wide, on average. The individual zone boundaries are not straight, however, because they have been adjusted for the convenience and desires of local populations. 16) What is the prime meridian? 17) If it’s 10:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Toronto? London? Moscow? Tokyo? Hawaii? 12:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm, 1:00am, 6:00 am 18) what is Daylight Saving Time? Do we use this in Saskatchewan? When people turn their clocks back then turn it back in the fall no we don’t use it 19) Is there a year zero? No 20) are we starting a new decade in 2010 or 2011? In 2011 21) what is linear time? You start of 1 point and keeps on going through time 22) What is cyclical time? It repeats it self