Video Summary-Geology

Watch this Nova program entitled, “Australia’s First 4 Billion Years” about Earth’s earliest history recorded in the rocks and fossils of this most ancient continent, called “Awakening“. Write a short summary (2-3 paragraphs) of it and submit.

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According to Smith (2013), no continent in the world can portray how the earth was formed and came to life as we see it today. He takes a journey to the inner part of Australia where he can discover some of the events and living creatures that that existed four billion years ago. Smith was able to divide the first four billion years into four sections which included the awakening which explains how the earth was born, the life episodes which explains how life transformed to fill the earth, the monsters and lastly the strange creatures that used to exist on the earth’s crust.

To begin with, Smith reveals that in the red hills were where the earth was born and where the awakening stage emerged. When the universe was born it transformed into the planet that we have today. This was made possible by the assortment of bacterial slimes which formed them together. This filled the earth with…

 

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