What are all the eras called?

List of geological eras in Earth’s history

What can we learn from dinosaurs?

Studying dinosaurs has played a key role in developing evolutionary theory and other scientific concepts, such as plate tectonics and biogeography. All of these pursuits arise as a result of humanity’s innate curiosity to investigate how our world works and where we fit within the natural world we see around us.

What’s our era called?

Cenozoic

What are the three things that you know about the extinction of the dinosaurs?

A big meteorite crashed into Earth, changing the climatic conditions so dramatically that dinosaurs could not survive. Ash and gas spewing from volcanoes suffocated many of the dinosaurs. Diseases wiped out entire populations of dinosaurs. Food chain imbalances lead to the starvation of the dinosaurs.

Why should we learn about the extinction of the dinosaurs?

The study of dinosaurs is crucial to understanding to the mechanics of evolution. Scientists around the world today are undertaking extensive research on extinction, using dinosaur fossils to understand the biodiversity of the Earth millions of years ago.

How do we know when dinosaurs became extinct?

Geological evidence indicates that dinosaurs became extinct at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene eras, about 66 million years ago, at a time when there was worldwide environmental change resulting from the impact of a large celestial object with the Earth and/or from vast volcanic eruptions.

What is an era of time?

Era, a very long span of geologic time; in formal usage, the second longest portions of geological time (eons are the longest).