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    In the beginning, the Earth was a molten ball that formed from the collisions of smaller rocky bodies. It gradually cooled over billions of years, developing a solid crust and oceans as water vapor condensed in the atmosphere. The oldest rocks date back 3.9 billion years, and scientists estimate the first single-celled life emerged around 3 billion years ago before evolving into more complex multicellular organisms over the next 2 billion years. Earth has experienced several mass extinction events that wiped out most life, including one that occurred after early life first diversified across the oceans and land.

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    In the beginning, the Earth was a molten ball that formed from the collisions of smaller rocky bodies. It gradually cooled over billions of years, developing a solid crust and oceans as water vapor condensed in the atmosphere. The oldest rocks date back 3.9 billion years, and scientists estimate the first single-celled life emerged around 3 billion years ago before evolving into more complex multicellular organisms over the next 2 billion years. Earth has experienced several mass extinction events that wiped out most life, including one that occurred after early life first diversified across the oceans and land.

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    In the beginning, the Earth was a molten ball that formed from the collisions of smaller rocky bodies. It gradually cooled over billions of years, developing a solid crust and oceans as water vapor condensed in the atmosphere. The oldest rocks date back 3.9 billion years, and scientists estimate the first single-celled life emerged around 3 billion years ago before evolving into more complex multicellular organisms over the next 2 billion years. Earth has experienced several mass extinction events that wiped out most life, including one that occurred after early life first diversified across the oceans and land.

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    Chapter 2: Lesson 2.

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    History of the Earth
     
    Lesson 2.5: HISTORY OF EARTH

    In the very beginning of earth's history, this planet was a


    giant, red hot, roiling, boiling sea of molten rock - a magma
    ocean. The heat had been generated by the repeated high
    speed collisions of much smaller bodies of space rocks that
    continually clumped together as they collided to form this
    planet. As the collisions tapered off the earth began to cool,
    forming a thin crust on its surface. As the cooling
    continued, water vapor began to escape and condense in
    the earth's early atmosphere. Clouds formed and storms
    raged, raining more and more water down on the primitive
    earth, cooling the surface further until it was flooded with
    water, forming the seas.
    It is theorized that the true age of the earth is about 4.6
    billion years old, formed at about the same time as the rest of
    our solar system. The oldest rocks geologists have been able
    to find are 3.9 billion years old. Using radiometric
    dating methods to determine the age of rocks means scientists
    have to rely on when the rock was initially formed (as in - when
    its internal minerals first cooled). In the infancy of our home
    planet the entire earth was molten rock - a magma ocean.
    When Did Life on Earth Begin?
    Scientists are still trying to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of
    earth: When did "life" first appear and how did it happen? It is
    estimated that the first life forms on earth were primitive, one-
    celled creatures that appeared about 3 billion years ago. That's
    pretty much all there was for about the next two billion years. Then
    suddenly those single celled organisms began to evolve into
    multicellular organisms. Then an unprecedented profusion of life in
    incredibly complex forms began to fill the oceans. Some crawled from
    the seas and took residence on land, perhaps to escape predators in
    the ocean. A cascading chain of new and increasingly differentiated
    forms of life appeared all over the planet, only to be virtually
    annihilated by an unexplained mass extinction. It would be the first
    of several mass extinctions in Earth's history.
    For topic Geological time scale please watch this video.
    The Geological History of Earth
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6k3NRy-YWs)

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