PRE-

CAMBRIAN
ERA
 WHAT IS THE PRE-CAMBRIAN
KNOWN FOR?
The pre-Cambrian was the “Age of early Life”. During the
pre-Cambrian, continents formed and our modern atmosphere
developed, while early life evolved and flourished. Soft-
bodied creatures like worms and jellyfish lived in the world’s
oceans, but the land remained barren.
In the early cambrian’ Earth was
generally cold but was gradually
warning as the glaciers of the late
Proterozoic Eon receded.
The climate of the late pre-cambrian time’
the pro-terozoic eon (2.5 billion years ago
to 543 million years ago) was typically
cold with glaciations spreading over much
of the Earth. One of the most important
events of the proterozoic was the gathering
of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere.
What are the 3 periods in the pre-
cambrian era?
The pre-Cambrian is divided into three
eons highlighted below, from the
youngest to oldest:

HADEAN , ARCHEAN AND

PROTEROZOIC
HADEAN

During the hadean time, the solar system

was forming withing the cloud of dust
and gas known as the solar nebula, which
eventually spawned asteroids, comets,
moons, and planets.
ARCHEAN
During the archean eon, methane droplets in
the air shrouded the young Earth in a global
haze. There was no oxygen gas on Earth.
Oxygen was only in compounds such as
water. Complez chemical reactions in the
young oceans transformed carbon-
containing molecules into simple, living cells
that did not need oxygen to live.
PROTEROZOIC
During the Proterozoic, the Earth had cooled
considerably from the previous hadean eon when
the planet was covered by molten lava. Near the end
of the Proterozoic, ice sheets ware groeing towards
the equator, and the entire planet was possibly
engulfed under a thin layer of snow and ice.
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K YOU!