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** Big Bang Theory Assignment ** Go to [] and answer these questions:  1) About how long ago did the big bang take place? - Around 13.7 billion years ago 2) What is a black hole?   - Black holes are areas of intense gravitational pressure.  3) Does the universe continue to expand?  - It continues to expand and cool to this day and we are inside of it. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">4) Was there really a big bang? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- According to the many experts space didn't exist prior to the Big Bang. I cannot really say, but there are some major evidences which support the Big Bang theory:   <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> 1st = W e are reasonably certain that the universe had a beginning. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">2nd = Galaxies appear to be moving away from us at speeds proportional to their distance. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">3rd = The universe was initially very, very hot as the Big Bang suggests, we should be able to find some remnant of this heat. Radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson are told that found the remnant of this heat. (They discovered a -454.765 degree Fahrenheit Cosmic Microwave Background radiation which pervades the observable universe.) <span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">5) What light elements seem to support the Big Bang Theory?  <span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Hydrogen and Helium  <span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">5/5 great  <span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">** Time Keeps On Slippin’ Assignment **  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">1) What is the current calendar most of the world uses / accepts? Explain who made it and why this is accepted. <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- The Western calendar, or Christian calendar is the internationally accepted calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named. The motivation for the Gregorian reform was that the Julian calendar assumes that the time between vernal equinoxes is 365.25 days, when in fact it is presently almost exactly 11 minutes shorter. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">2) What is a leap year? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100; the centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 are still leap years.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">3) List three other types of calendars used and how they set up their calendar (ex. Lunar). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Proleptic Gregorian calendar = the Gregorian calendar can, for certain purposes, be extended backwards to dates preceding its official introduction, producing the proleptic Gregorian calendar.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Lunar Calendar = the Catholic Church maintained a tabular lunar calendar, which was primarily to calculate the date of Easter, and the lunar calendar required reform as well.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- The Gregorian solar calendar = an arithmetical calendar. It counts days as the basic unit of time, grouping them into years of 365 or 366 days; and repeats completely every 146,097 days, which fill 400 years, and which also happens to be 20,871 seven-day weeks. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">4) What is BC? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">-Before Christ = Starts with year 1.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">5) What is BCE? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Before Common Era = For example 400 BC is 400 BCE. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">6) What is AD? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">-Anno Domini = Year of our Lord referring to the year of Christ’s birth.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">7) What is CE? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Common Era = used in place of A.D. the dates are the same i.e. 2009 AD is 2009 CE. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">8) What is MYA? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Million Years Ago  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">9) According to the timeline site how many periods of when are there and list time. <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- 22 periods of when are there. <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">14000 MYA - Big Bang: Formation of the Universe <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">4600 MYA - Formation Earth  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">543 MYA - 490 MYA - Cambrian: Explosion of Life on Earth  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">290 MYA - 248 MYA - Permian: Largest Mass Extinction  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">245 MYA - 65 MYA - Mesozoic: Age of Dinosaurs  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">65 MYA - Cenozoic: Age of Mammals  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">5 MYA - 2500 BC - Stone age: The Human Era  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">70000 BC - 8000 BC - Ice age: Extintion of Large Mammals  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">9000 BC - 4500 BC - Neolithic: First Permanent Settlements  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">3200 BC - 1200 BC - Bronze age: First Pharaos  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">1200 BC - 332 BC - Iron age: Start of the Trojan War  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">332 BC - 63 BC - Hellenistic period  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">63 BC - 476 - Roman period  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">330 - 1453 - Byzantine period  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">476 - 1350 - Middle Ages  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">1350 - 1600 - Renaissance  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">1500 - 1600 - Reformation  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">1600 - 1800 - Enlightenment  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">1750 - 1900 - Industrial Revolution  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">1900 - 2000 - 20th Century  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">2000 - 2099 - 21st Century  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">2012 - Future  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">10) What is an eon, epoch, era, and age? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;"> - An epoch is longer than an era and can cover more than one lifetime. <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- An eon is a very long time. It is the longest period of geological time. Geologists subdivide an eon into eras. <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- An era is subdivided into periods, epochs, and stages. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- An age means millions of years. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">11) List three ancient calendars <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Aztec Calendar Stone, Stonehenge and Moon's cycles.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">12) List two ancient clocks and how they worked. <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Sun Clocks = Their moving shadows formed a kind of sundial, enabling people to partition the day into morning and afternoon. <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Water Clocks = These were stone vessels with sloping sides that allowed water to drip at a nearly constant rate from a small hole near the bottom. Markings on the inside surfaces measured the passage of "hours" as the water level reached them. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">13) What was a revolution of timekeeping? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Accurate Mechanical Clocks to Quartz clocks   <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">14) What allows for standard more accurate clocks? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- No gears or escapements to disturb their regular frequency. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">15) What are time zones? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">16) What is the prime meridian? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- The prime meridian is the vertical line that marks the zero degree longitude measurement on the globe of Earth. The line intersects the latitude lines that are horizontal. Not every globe has the same prime meridian measurement, but most measure the earth’s prime meridian as a line that passes through England, France, Spain, Togo, and down to Antarctica. 17) If it’s 10:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Toronto? London? Moscow? Tokyo? Hawaii? - Toronto- 11:00 AM <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- London- 4:00 AM  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Moscow- 8:00 PM  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Tokyo- 1:00 AM  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Hawaii- 6:00 AM  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">18) What is Daylight Saving Time? Do we use this in Saskatchewan? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- During late winter we move our clock one hour ahead and "lose" an hour during the night and each Fall we move our clocks back one hour and "gain" an extra hour. We don't use it here in Saskatchewan  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">19) Is there a year zero?  <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- No.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">20) Are we starting a new decade in 2010 or 2011? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- 2011. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">21) What is linear time? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- Linear time is a major feature of our Western cultural world-view, apparently initiated by Newton some 300 years ago. It portrays time as an absolute physical reality, and says that the passage of time is independent of consciousness. So it doesn't matter what you think, feel, or do, or how you look at time, time doesn't change as a result.  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">22) What is cyclical time? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">-The passage of 'linear' time that has brought us where we are today and the dawn of a new century and a new millennium. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">**Bonus Question:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">In What Steve Miller song does time ‘keep slippin’ into the future’? <span style="color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">- "Fly like an eagle" 22/22 great

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Time Travelers Assignment ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> Part 1 and 2 - Geological Time: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> [|http://www.dipity.com/moralj62/Time-Travelers/#] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Part 3- Youtube Playlist <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">2.) Precambrian- the oldest division of geologic time, named after Cambria, Wales, where fossils of this period were found. ===== <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">3.) Paleozoic- The era of geologic time characterized by the appearance of primitive fishes, land plants and primitive reptiles. 4.) Paleo- means ancient in greek; zoon- a living being in greek 5.) Mesozoic- relating to the third era. 6.) Cenozoic- relating to the latest era. 7.) Plate tectonics- puzzle of the continents 8.) Pangaea- giant super continent meaning all lands 9.) Oceans are as old as the Earth itself. 10.) Mid-ocean ridges- underwater mountain systems 3 Questions: 1.) Why did they name the giant super continent pangaea? 2.) How was Earth formed? 3.) Paleozoic- why did the name come from greek language? - I think the point of watching these videos were to learn by hearing and seeing at the same time because if we just listen to the teacher then we don't really get the chance of knowing what really happened and we get a better understanding by seeing. I also think the point of watching these videos were to teach us that we have to pay attention very closely in order to learn. And that there are more learning techniques than just listening to the teacher like by figuring out things by ourselves.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">48/48 great <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> --  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> **Understanding Evolution**  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9400ff; display: block; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> **Part One - We Evolve(on the iPad) :D** **Part Two - Significant Evolutionary Information**

In a google doc copy and paste these terms and then find an image or video, a definition, and a fact and/or an example for each. Provide link for each resource. Then copy and paste the link for your google doc in the Time section of your wiki. 10X4=40

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Lucy (homid) Fossils Charles Darwin Relative Dating Techniques Absolute Dating Techniques Palaeontology Anthropology Stone Age Jericho (one of the oldest settlements) Agricultural Revolution (pre-history not in middle ages)