Time

=**The Big Bang!!!**= 1)Q: About how long ago did the big bang take place? 1)A: **It took place about 13.7 billion years ago.** 2)Q:What is a black hole? 2)A:**They are areas of intense gravitational pressure. The pressure is thought to be so intense that finite matter is actually squished into infinite density.** 3)Q:Does the universe continue to expand? 3)A;**Yes** 4)Q:Was there really a big bang? 4)A:**No** 5)Q:What light elements seem to support the Big Bang Theory? 5)A:**Hydrogen and Helium**

1) What is the current calendar most of the world uses / accepts? Explain who made it and why this is accepted?**The Gregorian calendar, also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar,** 2) What is a leap year?
 * A leap year happens every 4 years and adds one more day to the calander. That day is in February. **

3) List three other types of calendars used and how they set up their calendar (ex. Lunar).
 * **Lunar-The lunar calendar goes by the cycles of the moon **
 * **Julian-Containing 365 days and every 4 years an extra day. **
 * **Lunisolar-Track the cycle of the seasons and the cycles of the moon **

**4) What is BC? Before Christ**


 * 5) what is BCE? Before Common Era **


 * 6) what is AD? Anno Domini **


 * 7) what is CE? Common Era. **

8) What is MYA? **Million years ago.**

9) According to the timeline site how many periods of when are there and list time.
 * **21 periods of time **
 * **14000 MYA - Big Bang: Formation of the Universe **
 * **4600 MYA - Formation of the Earth **
 * **543 - 490 MYA - Cambrian: Explosion of life on Earth **
 * **290 - 248 MYA - Permian: Largest Mass Extinction **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">245 - 65 MYA - Mesozoic: age of the Dinosaurs **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">5 MYA - 2500 BC - Stone Age: The Human Era **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">70000 BC - 8000 BC - Ice Age: Extinction of Large Mammals **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">9000 BC - 4500 BC - Neolithic: First Permanent Settlements **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">3200 BC - 1200 BC - Bronze Age: First Pharaohs **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">1200 BC - 332 BC - Iron Age: Start of the Trojan War **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">332 BC - 63 BC - Hellenistic Period **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">63 BC - 476 - Roman Period **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">330 - 1453 - Byzantine Period **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">476 - 1350 - Middle Ages **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">1350 - 1600 - Renaissance **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">1500 - 1600 - Reformation **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">1600 - 1800 - Enlightenment **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">1750 - 1900 - Industrial Revolution **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">1900 - 2000 - 20th Century **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">2000 - 2099 - 21st Century **
 * **<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">2011 – **
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">Future <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">10) What is an eon, epoch, era, and age?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Eon is half a billion years or more **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Epoch is tens of millions of years **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Era is several million years **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Age is millions of years **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">11) List three ancient calendars
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Aztec calendar, Egyptian calendar, Stonehenge **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">12) List two ancient clocks and how they worked.
 * Obelisks- their moving shadows formed a kind of sundial, enabling people to partition the day into morning and afternoon. **
 * Sundials-a device that measures time by the position of the Sun **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">13) What was a revolution of timekeeping?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Clocks **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">14) What allows for standard more accurate clocks? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">15) What are time zones? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">16) What is the prime meridian? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">17) If it’s 10:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Toronto? London? Moscow? Tokyo? Hawaii? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">**Toronto- 11:30am** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">**London-6:00pm** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">**Moscow-7:00pm** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">**Tokyo- 3:00am** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">**Hawaii- 6am**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">18) What is Daylight Saving Time? Do we use this in Saskatchewan? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">**no because we are a farming communtiy.** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">19) Is there a year zero? **No** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">20) Are we starting a new decade in 2010 or 2011? **2011** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">21) What is linear time? a stright line <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">22) What is cyclical time? seasons