Time

**Big Bang Questions**

1] **About how long ago did the Big-Bang take place?** About 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? To this day yes it does continue and expand and cool.

4] Was there really a Big-Bang? No there wasnt really a big bang

5] What light elements seem to support the Big-Bang Theory? Hyrdrogen and Helium

Name: Cassandra LintottDate: September 13th

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**1) What is the current calendar most of the world uses / accepts? Explain who made it and why this is accepted. ** Its the Gregarian calendar internationally accepted civil callender, it was introduced by God Pope Gregory XIII **2) What is a leap year?** A leap year is a evenly divisible number by 4, but not if the year number is evenly divisible by 100. **3) List three other types of calendars used and how they set up their calendar (ex. Lunar).**﻿﻿ Lunar and Solar **4) What is BC?** Before Christ **5) What is BCE?** Before Common Era **6) What is AD?** Means Anno Domini, its the year of our Lord, reffering to the year of christs birth. **7) What is CE?** Common Era <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**8) What is MYA?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">Millions of years ago <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**9) According to the timeline site how many periods of when are there and list time.**﻿﻿ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">﻿﻿﻿﻿14000 MYA Big Bang ; 4600 MYA Formation Earth ; 543 MYA - 490 MYA Cambrian ;290 MYA - 248 MYA Permian ;245 MYA- 65 MYA Mesozic ; 5 MYA- 2500 BC 4th Millenium BC; 70000 BC- 8000 BC Ice age ; 9000 BC - 4500 BC first settlements ; 3200 BC- 1200 BC 3rd Millenium BC ;1200 BC- 332 BC 2nd Millenium BC ; 63 BC - 476 First century ; 330 - 1453 Byzantine; 476 - 1350 Middle Ages ;1350 - 1600 Renaissance. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**10) What is an eon, epoch, era, and age?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">Eon- A particular period of time. Epoch- A particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc. Era- A period of time marked by distinctive character, event etc. Age- The length of time during which a being or thing has existed. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**11) List three ancient calendars** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">aztec calender clock - lunar - stoneage <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**12) List two ancient clocks and how they worked.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">The Pendulum clocks, it would have an error of less than one minute a day, the first time such accuracy had been achieved. The short clock was overtaken by the quartz clock. It was operated by quartz crystals. If you applied an eletric field to the crystal it would change the shape. <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">**14) What allows for standard more accurate clocks?﻿ .** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">Atomic Clock <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">Time zones are one of the 24 regions or divisions of the globe approximately coinciding with meridians at successive hours from the observatory at Greenwhich, England. <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">**16) What is the prime meridian?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">The Meridian running through Greenwhich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned. <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;"> Toronto- 12:00 Am London-8:00 Pm Moscow- 11:00 Pm Tokyo- 6:00 Am Hawaii- 6:00 Am <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;"> <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">**20) Are we starting a new decade in 2010 or 2011?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">2011 will be starting a new decade. <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">﻿ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">years are named and there are 60 names. Once the 60 names are finished the next year begins. it Repeats itself in a motion.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">13) What was a revolution of timekeeping? **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">Mechanical clock
 * 15) What are time zones?**
 * 17) If it's 10:00AM in Regina, what time is it in Toronto?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">London? Moscow? Tokyo? Hawaii?
 * 18) What is Daylight saving time? Do we use this in saskatchewan?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">﻿When people turn their clock backwards . and we do not have daylight saving time in saskatchewan <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">
 * 19) Is there a year zero?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;"> No there isnt a year zero.
 * 21) What is linear time?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">In computer science, the time complexity of an algorithm quantifies the amount of time taken by a algorithm quantifies the amount of time taken byy an algorithm to run as a function of th size of the input to the problem. <span style="color: #ff008b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">
 * 22) What is a cyclical time?**


 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">Geological Time Activites **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">4600 Earth formed from planetary nebula <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">3900Inferred origin of life (first cells) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">700 million years ago <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">3800Oldest age-dated rocks on Earth <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">- 505 Ordovician system begins - 505 First fish <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">370 First sharks <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">245 End of Paleozoic, 96% of all life on Earth perishes <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">228 First dinosaurs (Eoraptor and Saltoposuchus) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">65 End of Mesozoic, probably meteor or comet impact <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">4 Oldest human like ancestors (hominids) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">0.1 First modern man, Homo sapiens <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">63 years World War II <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">937 million years <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">The Earth is 4.55 Billion Years old. <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">1 second equals about 146 years
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">1) What happened at 12 AM January 1, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">2) What happened at 4:41 PM February, 25 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">3) How long of actual time happened between the event in question one and two? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">4) What happen at 3:39 PM September 3, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">5) What happened at 7:40 PM November 21, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">6) What happened at 1:27PM December 2, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">7) What happened at 12:09 PM December 12, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">8) What happened at 8:37 PM December 13, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">9) What happened at 7:52 PM December 26, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">10) What happened at 5:18 PM December 31, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">11) What happened at 11:48 PM December 31, 2004? **
 * <span style="color: #2f8721; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt; lineheight: 115%;">12) What happened at 12:00 AM January 1, 2005? **
 * 13) How long of actual time happened between the event in question 11 and**
 * 14) How old is the Earth?**
 * 15) On the chart how many years are represented by one second?**