History

Timeline of Early Prehistory
13.7 billion BC Big Bang
4.6 billion BC    Earth
4.5 billion BC Moon forms
4 billion BC Life
2 billion BC Eukaryotes
1 billion BC Rodina breaks into Gondwana and Laurasia
600 million BC Complex multicellular life, Cambrian explosion
540 million BC Laurasia splits into Laurentia, Baltica, and Siberia
530 million BC Fish, vertebrates
400 million BC Ozone layer forms
300 million BC Baltica and Siberia collide to form Urals
300 million BC Pangaea (recombination of plates), life on land
260 million BC Suminia, tree dwelling Synapsid (proto-mammal)
250 million BC Permian mass extinction (95% of life), Triassic begins
230 million BC Dinosaurs
200 million BC Mammals, Jurassic begins
180 million BC Pangaea breaks into Laurasia, Gondwana
160 million BC S America, India/Australia/Antarctica separate from Africa
100 million BC Laurentia (N America) and Eurasia separate
65 million BC 6 mile meteor hits Yucatan Penisula coast forming Chicxulub crater; vulcanism; Dionsaurs extinct (and 75% of life)
60 million BC Primates
45 million BC India crashes into Asia forming Himalayas
30 million BC N America and South America collide
2 million BC Ice ages, early human ancestors
790,000 BC Homo Erectus, use of fire
300,000 BC Homo Sapiens
160,000 BC Homo Sapiens Sapiens
80,000 BC Out of Africa (our ancestors)
75,000 BC Toba volcanic eruption
30,000 BC Cro-Magnons in Europe
29,000 BC Neanderthals extinct
23,000 BC Colonization of N America
16,000 BC Last Glacial Maximum
10,000 BC End of last Ice Age

Major Earth Plates

  1. Laurentian
  2. Eurasian - Baltic - Cimmerian - Lhasa
  3. African
  4. Australian
  5. South American
  6. Pacific
  7. Indian
  8. Antarctica
  9. Arabian
  10. Filipino
  11. Carribean
  12. Scotia
  13. Nazca (Farallon)
  14. Cocos (Farallon)
  15. Juan de Fuca (Farallon)

Outline of Earth History

Precambrian: 4.6 billion BC - 542 million BC

Paleozoic era
    a. Cambrian period
    b. Silurian
    c. Ordovician
    d. Devonian
    e. Carboniferous / Mississippian
    f. Carboniferous / Pennsylvanian
    g. Permian

Mesozoic era
    a. Triassic period
    b. Jurassic
    c. Cretaceous

Cenozoic era
    a. Paleocene epoch
    b. Eocene
    c. Oligocene
    d. Miocene
    e. Pliocene
    f. Pleistocene
    g. Holocene

Biology - Life

Kingdoms

  1. Animalia
  2. Plantae
  3. Fungi
  4. Protista
  5. Archaea
  6. Bacteria

Major Animal Phyla - Class - Order

  1. Chordata
  2. Arthropoda
    - Insecta
    - Arachnida
        - Acarina (mites, ticks)
        - Araneae (spiders)
        - Scorpiones
    - Malacostraca
        - Decapoda (crab, lobster, shrimp)
  3. Mollusca
    - Bivalvia
    - Gastropoda
    - Cephalopoda
        - Octopoda
        - Teuthida (squid)
        - Sepiida (cuttlefish)
        - Nautilida
  4. Annelida
  5. Cnidaria
  6. Brachiopoda
  7. Echinodermata
  8. Porifera

Chordata - Craniata -
Vertebrata
    Jawless fish
    Gnathostomata
        Actinopterigii (finned fish)
        Sarcopterigii (lobe-finned fish)
            Tetrapoda
                Amphibia
                Amniota
                    Sauropsida
                        Reptilia
                        Aves
                    Synapsida (Theropsida)
                        Mammalia