Biggest Episodes of Earth

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Across
  1. 5. complex life form formed after the Earth froze about 200 MYA (9)
  2. 7. force that pulls matter together (1)
  3. 8. name of supercontinent that broke apart about 175 MYA (15)
  4. 10. Earth is 4.5 what years old
  5. 12. this process began about 3 billion years (4) two words
  6. 14. the earth’s atmosphere was void of this gas until about 2.4 billion years ago (5)
  7. 15. first appeared on Earth about 465 MYA (20)
  8. 16. life may of started near warm alkaline what (2)
Down
  1. 1. this process made considerable gains about 30 MYA (23)
  2. 2. first mammals were small and what like (17)
  3. 3. the end result of photosynthesis (3)
  4. 4. period where the first reptiles started to appear (14)
  5. 6. about 1.2 billion years ago organisms started sharing this (7)
  6. 7. relatives of this were probably the first plants to live on land (11) two words
  7. 9. what eukaryote cells absorbed what to obtain a new energy source (6)
  8. 11. period where the first mass extinction occurred (12)
  9. 13. birds developed from feathered what (19)