How Long Ago is Long Ago: The Evolutionary Timeline
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1 How Long Ago is Long Ago: The Evolutionary Timeline Long Ago Pretest Overview: The earth is estimated to be about 4.6 billion years old. Homo sapiens may date to 160,000 years ago. The United States has been an independent country for 230 years. You may have been around for around 20 years. Sometimes it is difficult to grasp that large range of time at a glance. To appreciate the timescale for the evolution process, change over time, and the appearance of the diversity of life forms, this activity will help you develop a tangible example of this time scale. It will be the beginning of the exploration of the appearance of life on this planet and its change over time. Time periods: Geological time is divided into several time periods. Eons are the longest period. Eons are divided into eras. Eras are divided into periods. Periods are divided into epochs. Epochs are divided into stages, but we will not consider them in this activity. Student Learning Objectives: Materials: 1. To increase the appreciation for the time scale for evolutionary processes. 2. To be able to use a proportional scale to translate the large numbers into a familiar size range. 3. To fit the geologic time periods into that time scale. 4. To begin to place evolutionary events into the time scale. Geologic time scale Adding machine tape Masking tape Markers Measuring tape/meter stick and rulers Excel or calculators
2 Procedure: Part A: Making a Paper Timeline 1. Find a partner with whom to work. Select the materials you will need and find an area in the hall to work. 2. You will be constructing a scale model of the earth s history from its birth, 4.6 billion years ago until the present. Use a scale of 1 cm = 2,000,000 years. a. How long will your piece of paper need to be? How will you set up the problem? Cut off the length of paper, tape it down and mark one end as the Present. Use this as your starting point for your measurements. Using the scale given, measure and mark the birth of the earth. 3. Using the same scale and the geologic timelines, calculate the length in centimeters of each eon, era, period and epoch. You may use Excel for these calculations. Measure those lengths and label them on your timeline paper. Develop a color coding system that will help you differentiate the divisions on your time line. Make a legend that will identify your coding system. 4. Add the following events to your timeline. (Dates are approximate and may vary in different sources.) Indicate the Era and Period. Give the date in scientific notation Event Date Date in scientific notation Dinosaurs appear 200 Insects appear 350 Bony Fish appear 425 Prokaryotes appear 3500 Dinosaurs extinct 65 Eukaryotic cells appear 2200 Pangaea breaks apart 200 Oxygen increases 2700 Plants invade land 450 Seed plants develop 325 Amphibians appear 360 Mammals appear 200 Primates appear 30 Era Epoch
3 Birds appear 145 You were born Humans in Western.015 Hemisphere Invertebrates appear 600 Flowering plants 140 appear Reptiles appear 300 Lucy appears 3.25 Multicellular 1200 organisms Homo sapiens appears US Independence First hominid tools 2.8 Agriculture develops.006 Answer the following questions: 1. How long were dinosaurs around?. How does that time compare with the time primates have been around? How does that time compare with the time Homo sapiens have been around? 2. How does the length of time for the appearance of the first life forms, prokaryotes, to occur compare with the time for eukaryotes to develop from prokaryotes and for eukaryotes to become multicellular? 3. How long was life in the sea before it moved to the land? 4. How long were primates present before Homo sapiens evolved? B : Translation of the Evolutionary Timeline into an Earth Year Carl Sagan is a well known cosmologist who helped us understand this huge time frame by putting the age of the universe into a 365 day year Your task will be to do a similar project by putting the earth s lifespan and the evolutionary events you put on your timeline into a 365 day year. An Excel spread sheet will assist you in the calculations. If you need a review of Excel, check out Excel 2007
4 Calculation Hints for Earth Calendar 24 hours X 60 minutes = 1,440 minutes/day 1,400 X 365 days in a year = 525,600 minutes/year # of million years for the event of interest = x (# of minutes of the year) 4,600 million years (age of earth) 525,600 (minutes in year) x (answer above 1,400 = days ago + remaining minutes Count back the number of days from December 31 Use remaining minutes from your calculation to determine the time counting back from midnight of the day before.
5 A B C D E F 1 Event Date Minutes of the year Days of the year Extra minutes Date
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