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Million Years Ago 2 Million
460 words2 million years ago, life on Earth for mankind was very different. Back then, technology as we know it did not even exist. Over the years, mankind's increased scientific knowledge has allowed him to increase the amount of personal luxuries, but not The first human beings may have appeared 2 million years ago, but they did not even discover fire until 1. 5 million BC. From a purely technological standpoint, todays world far surpasses that of the old. All the comforts of modern technology are at o...
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Million Years Ago Shark Cartilage Sharks
587 wordsFor my project that I'm doing for biology, I'm doing a dissection. I'm going to be performing my project with Trevor Johnson, Tyler McCaskill, and Tom Study. The dissection that we decided to do was the dissection of a male and female shark. We are doing a dissection on a shark because we want to learn about the shark anatomy and the way the sharks organs work to keep all the water out and still eat fish while they are swimming around in the ocean. We also want to know how the sharks skin is so ...
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Million Years Ago 2 5 Million
866 wordsEvolution, there has been continous discussion about this subject. Until the time of Darwin, over 130 years ago, most scientists commonly considered the living animals and humans to be the evidence of one divine creator; God. However, Darwin claimed that the apes are the ancestors of the humans, which is accepted as evolution, and since then the scientists, religous communities and the people, who have different thoughts about evolution, are trying to find out which one is correct. Are we descen...
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Billion Years Ago Million Years Ago
687 wordsThe Principle Events in the Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere The literal translation of the word atmosphere is "sphere of vapors." The Earth's atmosphere is a protective sphere of vapors, or air that surrounds the Earth and provides it with a layer of insulation from the harmful rays of the sun. It is a vital part of the Earth, and has changed dramatically since the beginning of time. The earth's atmosphere has gradually changed since the Earth's birth approximately 4. 6 million years ago. In...
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Grolier Electronic Publishing Rio De Janeiro
1,732 wordsThroughout history, man has made many advancements. These advancements have been made to make life easier. The one thing man can't do is to control Mother Nature. Mother Nature can cause many things such as earthquakes. The causes of earthquakes have been theorized in many ways. According to the book Predicting Earthquakes by Gregory Vogt, the Greeks, "blamed the earthquakes on Poseidon, god of the sea" (25). The Hindu believed that "the earth was a platform that rested on the back of eight grea...
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Million Years Ago Gulf Of Mexico
1,898 wordsIntroduction What is the oceans role in climate? The oceans play a vital and pivotal role in the distribution of life sustaining water throughout our planet. 86 % of the evaporation that occurs on earth is over the oceans. The oceans are the planets largest reservoir of water transferring huge amounts of water around the hydrological cycle. In fact the oceans dominate the hydrological cycle, for they contain 97 % of the global water inventory. The hydrological cycle can be disrupted by changes i...
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Million Years Ago Survival Of The Fittest
723 wordsLike the biblical hero Adam, a single cell let part of it's body become another being, now one of a pair. Like the heroin Eve this duplicate created more of it's species. These multiplying cells joined together into a legacy long in running. The history of our evolution is dark, we fumble for answers yet still need more light to unlock the mysteries beneath. One must remember that when speaking of the theory of evolution one is not only referring to humans but to other species of the kingdom Ani...
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Million Years Ago 000 Years Ago
1,209 wordsSoutheast Asia is the location of a small country called the Philippines. Formally, Republic of the Philippines, the archipelago consists of roughly 7, 100 islands that are located in the southwest Pacific Ocean just Southeast of China. Natives of the country are called Filipinos. The term formerly originated when lowland Christian Spaniards, called indio's, began referring to themselves as Filipinos (Dolan 76). The ethnic background of a modern day Filipino is as complex as a typical Americans;...
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Million Years Ago Continental Drift
498 wordsThe earth, from its deep majestic oceans to its breathtaking mountains, is our home. But what goes undetected to humans is the violent cycle that is going on underneath our earth at this very moment. Volcanoes are spouting hot magma. Earthquakes are destroying cities and the continents we live on are moving around the ocean. But why do these phenomenon occur and what causes them to happen? From space the earth may look like one large floating mass. But underneath all of the oceans and continents...
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Million Years Ago Homo Erectus
837 wordsIn the video series In Search Of Human Origins, Don Johanson the anthropologist who discovered the oldest human fossil "Lucy" leads us from Lucy's origins as one of our earliest ancestors through the stages of evolution to the present time. Johanson considered Lucy to be "the missing link between ape and human." He discovered her in the Great Rift Valley of Africa and explains that the reason anthropologists search for clues to our origins here is because the ancient layers of the earth have bee...
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The Fossil Record Of Order Chiroptera
710 wordsThe Fossil Record of Order Chiroptera Bats are the second-most species group of mammals. In some tropical areas, there are more species of bats than of all other kinds of mammals combined. Bats, small mammals of the order Chiroptera, are a diverse group of over 1000 species living around the world. The fossil record of bats is poor when compared with that of most other kinds of mammals. This is probably because of their small size, typically low population densities, and habitat selection. Their...
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
693 wordsExtinction of Dinosaurs Ryan Humphries Biology 6 th Period Two-hundred and thirty million years ago the first dinosaur-like creature roamed the earth. Within five million years it could be considered a dinosaur. They were soon at the top of the food chain. They populated every continent. Then 65 million years ago they vanished. The most powerful creatures ever to live on earth had become extinct. Dinosaurs were not the only victims of this mass extinction. There were many other species that were...
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Million Years Ago 000 Years Ago
1,149 wordsOur Human Evolution Human Evolution Our farthest believed ancestor is believed to be Australopithecus afarensis. This species, which lived between three and four million years ago, is believed to be the first real hominid because it is the oldest, and most primitive of any definite hominid form thus far found. Evidence from fossilized footprints, as well as pelvic and leg bones, which were similar to modern hominids, led scientists to believe that they could walk upright. Its teeth resembled mor...
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
403 wordsDinosaurs: How they became extinct Something happened 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, something so devastating that it altered the course of life on earth. It seems like it happened so sudden, as geologic time goes, that almost all the dinosaurs living on earth disappeared. So how did these dominant creatures just die off? Was it a slow extinction, or did it happen all of the sudden? These questions bring rise to many different beliefs on how the dinosaur disappeared o...
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1,623 wordsThe first question that must be posed when trying to crack the mystery of the mass extinction is to ask, throughout history were there any other occurences of this magnitude? The answer is a resounding yes. Altogether over time there has been about eight mass extinctions to large land dwelling vertebrates. The most recent was about ten thousand years ago, killing most of the giant mammals like mammoths, mastodons, super-large camels, saber-toothed tigers, and others (Bakker 428). The second ques...
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
1,087 wordsWHERE DID THEY GO? BY JOHN J. HATFIELD EARTH SCIENCE LAB 2234 TERM 2 INTRODUCTION The biggest mystery surrounding the dinosaur is how did they die? For over 130 million years dinosaurs ruled the earth. Then 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, they died out. Nobody can really say what actually eliminated the species, although everyone has their very own idea. Asteroid impact, atmospheric changes (hot to cold), catastrophic eruptions and astronomical events (supernovas etc. ...
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Million Years Ago Second Law Of Thermodynamics
2,945 wordsEvolution VS. Creation It has been said that the major difference between humans and beasts is that humans are curious about there beginnings, they question where they came from and how they ended up where they are. There as several theories as to how humans came to exist but none have created such a controversy as the debate between evolutionism and creationism. Evolutionism consists of the idea that all organisms evolved from a single ancestor. According to this theory, the human species close...
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Million Years Ago Highest Point
378 wordsBang! 50 million years ago India collided with Eurasia. The land buckled and crunched upward the birth of the mighty Himalaya. 100 million years ago, a vast sea seperated Eurasia and India. Then, India started drifting north ward at a rate of 4 inches a year. In geological time that is break neck speed. Like other pikes in the region, Mt. Everest has long been revered by the local people. It s most common Tibetan name, Chomolungma, means Goddess mother of the world. It s identity as the highest ...
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Million Years Ago 5 Million Years
1,716 wordsThe Earliest Hominine's The first undoubted homicide discovered thus far is Ardipithecus radius, which was found in 1994 and is known from 17 fragments of teeth and bone. It dates to approximately 4. 4 million years ago. Thought to be the descendent genus of Ardipithecus is the genus Australopithecus; individuals of this genus were bipeds while on the ground and had ape-like brains and dexterous hands. There are at least six species of Australopithecus: A. anamnesis, A. afarensis, A. aethiopicus...
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Million Years Ago Gas And Dust
1,460 words01. Why do the stars in Orion look so different from each other? Looking at Orion is more than just looking at an area that is easy to recognize in the night sky. Orion is seething with activity and illustrates a clear and concise picture, of how stars are formed. It gives us the ability to compare different types of stars and most importantly, its right next door to Earth, astronomically speaking. The interest in Orion is currently at frenzy level, astronomers have always been interested in Ori...
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