BIOL 2051 Chapter : BIOL 2051 Video
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Answer the following questions based on the video how the earth was made from the history channel. Came up with the age of earth based on solely thermodynamics. Estimated the age of the earth by the radiometric dating. Lava that solidifies under deep water; lava released from the ocean floor. There is no such thing as bacterial algae, because algae is a is eukaryotic and bacteria at that time was prokaryotic (not that complex) Movement of the oceanic plates that allow the continents to move. In a human lifetime, plates will move 6 inches apart. Super continent (all the continents were bunched up together) Canada and the usa formed the super continent"s heart with other continents bunched around it. A desolate, lifeless place (no plants, forests, or grasslands) Triggered snowball earth (the biggest freeze the earth has ever seen: the earth was covered in ice (all but a tiny fraction of organisms was driven to extinction; the planet was dying)
