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Earth Structure
1) What does this photograph show?
The Earth is 4600 million years old.
What happened? When?
Roll the mouse over the timeline
Mark the following events on your time line.
What do you notice?
First flowers appear – 100 m
India collides with Asia – 50 m
Man (homo sapiens) inhabits the Earth – 0.1 m
Formation of the Alps – 30 m
Dinosaur extinction – 65 m
You were born! – 0.00013 m
Industrial Revolution (UK) - 0.0001 m
(figures are in ‘millions of years ago’)
Looking into
the Earth
Looking at it simply we can see the:
• Crust
• Mantle
• Core
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