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The Birth of Earth Video Questions!! Name: _________________________ Per: _____!

!
Answer the questions below as you watch the video Planet of Life: Birth of Earth available at the
following website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPwQj3f5osY!
!
1. What was Earth like 4.6 billion years ago? (write at least three different descriptive items from the movie)!

(1) ______________________________________________________________________________!

(2) ______________________________________________________________________________!

(3) ______________________________________________________________________________
!
2. What struck Earth 4.5 billion years ago? _________________________________________________!

3. What was formed as a result of this impact? _____________________!

4. It took another _____________________ years for the first DNA to form.!

5. What were the first life forms on earth? ___________________________________________________!

6. What is one theory for how the first organic compounds got onto the earth?

__________________________________________________________________________________!

7. What two important traits differentiated the first living organisms from the non-living matter around them:!

(1) _______________________________________________________________________________ !
(2) _______________________________________________________________________________!

8. What do the bacteria feed on that were found by Alvin at the bottom of the ocean along a volcanic vent?

__________________________________________________________________________________ !

9. What was the earth like three billion years ago?



__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________!

10. What gas was released into the atmosphere and poisoned the early cells? _______________________!

11. Erosion from wind and rain began to reshape the Earth starting three billion years ago, depositing

_____________ into the ocean, new ingredients to season the primordial soup. These reacted with

carbon dioxide in the atmosphere forming new compounds and releasing _____________________. It

took another 2.5 billion years for enough carbon dioxide to be removed from the atmosphere so that the

greenhouse effect lessened and the planet ______________________. This allowed sunlight to penetrate

through the cloud cover and reach down to the seas.!

12. Stromatolites are microscopic ______________ of cyanobacteria.!


13. Cyanobacteria are the early ancestors of plants. They are among the first cells to use energy from sunlight

to make sugars through a process called ___________________________.!

14. Cyanobacteria fossils are found in the ancient sea bottom as far back as ___________ billion years ago.!

15. Cyanobacteria released oxygen as a waste product into the seas,


which reacted with iron in the water, turning the ancient oceans the color ____________________.

Oxygen continued to build up in the oceans and atmosphere creating a pollution crisis for other early cells.
Early organisms adjusted to this infusion of oxygen by learning to create enzymes that neutralized it. !

16. How was the cell nucleus born?



__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________!

17. The job of the mitochondria is to provide the cell with all of the _______________ it needs.!

18. Scientists believe that mitochondria evolved from a symbiotic relationship between the smaller hard-shelled
bacteria that were good at using oxygen for energy metabolism and larger, soft-shelled bacteria that had
pooled their DNA into a central nucleus. Thus the evolution of the first eukaryotic cells occurred
__________ billion years ago, when two different micro bodies merged to create an entirely new
microorganism.!

19. It took _________________ billion years for life to evolve beyond primitive organisms. !

20. By about 500,000 years ago (half a billion years) the ocean was teaming with a vast collection of the first
multicellular organisms. Fill in the timeline below with the major events discussed in the movie and
recorded in this worksheet.

Earth
Formed

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