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 * Big Bang Theory Assignment**

Go to [] and answers these questions: 1) About how long ago did the big bang take place? 2) What is a black hole? 3) Does the universe continue to expand? 4) Was there really a big bang? 5) What light elements seem to support the Big Bang Theory?
 * Part 1**

Send your answers to me in an e-mail and post your answers to your wiki ... create a Time page in your wiki.

Click on the link **Does God Exist** and blog about this ... you can either blog about what was in the article or write up your thoughts or feelings about this.
 * Part 2**

Before we start to make our way through history, we need to get an understanding of time and how humans keep track of events that have happened throughout time. Read, watch, and listen to the following websites and answer the questions below. Once you finish this document post it in you Time section of your wiki and e-mail me your answers. Will be tested on the information below at a later date. Enjoy your time! 1) What is the current calendar most of the world uses / accepts? Explain who made it and why this is accepted. 2) What is a leap year? 3) List three other types of calendars used and how they set up their calendar (ex. Lunar).  4) What is BC? 5) What is BCE? 6) What is AD? 7) What is CE? 8) What is MYA? 9) According to the timeline site how many periods of when are there and list time. 10) What is an eon, epoch, era, and age? 11) List three ancient calendars 12) List two ancient clocks and how they worked. 13) What was a revolution of timekeeping? 14) What allows for standard more accurate clocks? 15) What are time zones? 16) What is the prime meridian? 17) If it’s 10:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Toronto? London? Moscow? Tokyo? Hawaii? 18) What is Daylight Saving Time? Do we use this in Saskatchewan? 19) Is there a year zero? 20) Are we starting a new decade in 2010 or 2011? 21) What is linear time? 22) What is cyclical time?
 * Time Keeps On Slippin’**

Resources (there may be a couple of answers outside these sites but for the most part all the answers can be found at the sites below) [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Bonus Question In What Steve Miller song does time ‘keep slippin’ into the future’?



Geological Time Activities
Part 1 - Q & A

Go to this link http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/geologictimescale.pdf

Find the answers to these questions and post to wiki and e-mail answers

1) What happened at 12 AM January 1, 2004? 2) What happened at 4:41 PM February, 25 2004? 3) How long of actual time happened between the event in question one and two? 4) What happen at 3:39 PM September 3, 2004? 5) What happened at 7:40 PM November 21, 2004? 6) What happened at 1:27PM December 2, 2004? 7) What happened at 12:09 PM December 12, 2004? 8) What happened at 8:37 PM December 13, 2004? 9) What happened at 7:52 PM December 26, 2004? 10) What happened at 5:18 PM December 31, 2004? 11) What happened at 11:48 PM December 31, 2004? 12) What happened at 12:00 AM January 1, 2005? 13) How long of actual time happened between the event in question 11 and 12? 14) How old is the Earth? 15) On the chart how many years are represented by one second.

Part 2 - Photostory Using the information on page 2 of the handout found at http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/geologictimescale.pdf and doing a search in Google Images, create a slide show that shows the four Eras (make a slide for each era with the times (4)) with four pictures per era (with caption and date on each slide (16)), a title page, and a reference page (find the actual source for each picture). Should have 22 slides in total. You will post the .wmv to the time section in the wiki send me an e-mail that you have posted it. Go here for a how to use photostory hand out ... http://intechgration.wikispaces.com/file/view/photostory3.pdf

Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx if you want to download this software at home (remember to save as a .wp3 file to have a working file only save as a .wmv when totally done and ready to post to wiki)

Part 3 - Videos Pangea Watch these videos and write at least 5 points about what you learned in your blog. [] [] [] []