Our Trip to the Field Museum - Part 1 of 3

Disclaimer: This post was written by a seven year old boy.  We apologize in advance for any inaccuracies or oversimplications.  

The first place I visited with my new family was the Field Museum in Chicago.  It is a museum of natural history and was really cool.

Part 1 - Evolving Planet

The first place we visited in the museum was this HUGE exhibit called "Evolving Earth."  Basically, "Evolving Earth" is about how the planet evolved and how animals became extinct.  I learned that there were six extinctions and one is still going on right now.  :(

So the first one we learned about was about the amoeba, which was ONE MOLECULE!  ONE! That was pretty crazy.  And then we watched a video about climates (or something like that).  Take for example that a certain species had longer legs than a different species.  Then a new predator appeared.  The ones with the longer legs would have a better chance to survive.  

The amoeba evolved into a different species with three molecules instead of one: kind of a big evolution for the amoeba! Then we learned how the three molecules-species turned into the first sea animals.  Then the sea animals evolved to go on land.  Then suddenly, there was an extinction.  A meteor shower mixed with volcanoes erupting caused the first (or second) mass extinction. 

The amoeba was still around, though.  Then they somehow evolved into the dinosaurs.  The herbivores scared Baby Tabasco a little since he is made from tabasco peppers, which are plants, which herbivores love to eat.

Suddenly, on December 25th, some kind of comet or meteor came down, bursting into the magma, which rose up, somehow, and then the dinosaurs became extinct. 

Lucy (replica) and Baby T.

So then, we learned about the Ice Age, where we learned about Lucy. Lucy is believed to be one of the first human species. George stuck his finger up Lucy's nose (Baby T added this). From there, humans evolved into the people we are today.

The entire exhibit was really good.  By the way, there was one more mass extinction I forgot to tell you about: Since we keep on using the law of technology, that keeps making pollution.  Pollution keeps making the air dirtier, so it's harder to breathe (well, you get what I mean by that).  This is why we may go extinct.  

Stop using so much technology--OOPS, we are right now!

by GDGS