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WASHING LINE OF TIME
After you have completed the washing line, answer these questions.
QQ In general, do you think you placed the events in the correct order or not?
What events did you place in roughly the correct position?
QQ What events did you place far from the correct position?
QQ Which events were hard to place on the washing line?
Why?
QQ Did anything surprise you?
Why?
QQ What was the most interesting thing you learned?
Why?
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Geological Time
Look at the Earth’s Geological time periods (information sheet 3) to answer these questions.
QQ We use the words Era, Period and Eon to describe lengths of time in the history of the Earth.
Can you list them in order of the longest, medium, and shortest time?
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3.
QQ What is the name of the time period when the first animals with hard skeletons evolved?
QQ Why do you think some animals evolved with hard skeletons?
QQ When were the rocks of the Burren formed? (give the name of the time period)
QQ How long did this time period last for?
QQ Can you name the time period in which the dinosaurs
(1) first appeared and (2) became extinct?
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2.
QQ When did modern humans first appear on Earth?