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Biography of the Earth, formation of continents - Coggle Diagram
Biography of the Earth, formation of continents
Big Bang
The whole universe was a huge dense and hot mass, and about 13,800 million years ago, that mass exploded. It is known as the BIG BANG.
HOW DID THE EARTH, SUN, AND PLANETS APPEAR?
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There were other small masses that orbit around were also condensed, forming the planets and satellites.
FORMATION OF CONTINENTS
The Earth's crust has been fragmented into several pieces, called TECTONIC PLATES, which have been displaced because they belong to the lithosphere (including continents and oceans), which "floats" on a fluid cover (called the asthenosphere).
ORGENESIS
Creation of Mountain Ranges, through subduction. One tectonic plate sinks beneath the other (subduction)
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GEOLOGICAL ERAS
EON: A unit of geological time, equivalent to one billion years.
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GEOLOGICAL ERAS
It extended for 312 million years.
Earth was divided into several continents
First:
Mountains: Appalachian
Animals: mollusk, fish, amphibians, reptiles
Plants: fern
Multiplication of animal and plant life on
earth
Continents adopted the current physiognomy
Formation of the Andes: Nazca plates subduction
Last 65 million years, until today The collision of Asia with India and Arabia with Eurasia gave the rise to the Alps and the Himalayas.
Dinosaurs disappear
Complex forms of life:
•Mammals
•Hominoid
•Homo Sapiens
•Current human being
