Australia’s Past Ecosystems – Summary of iMovie Presentations

Make notes during the presentations. Use these notes to write a response in class.
Compare the ecosystem from the time-period of your study to other time periods. Consider the common features of ecosystems. Explain the concept of ecosystem stability.

Eon Era Period Significant events

(Lengths (Lengths (Lengths of time) Representative Temperature, Significant events Mass Gondwana Fossil
of time) of time) Millions of Years Ago Landscape Atmosphere, Extinctions Australia Examples
(my)
Sea levels, Paleogeography Flora and Fauna and plausible
Ecosystems reasons
Quaternary

Neogene

Paleogene

Cretaceous

Jurassic Triassic-Jurassic
mass extinction

Triassic

Permian Permian mass

extinction

Carboniferous

Devonian Late Devonian

mass extinction

Silurian Ordovician-
Silurian mass
extinction

Ordovician

Cambrian

Edicarean Life evolves in the oceans

635–542