Something Like: Periods of Time

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Look at the definitions of the words in Janie's list of "Periods of Time" and try to put them into a sequence from shortest period of time to longest period of time. Which words are the easiest to put in a sequential order? Which ones cannot be as easily classified?
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  1. decade
    a period of 10 years
  2. epoch
    a period marked by distinctive character
  3. era
    a period marked by distinctive character
  4. generation
    group of genetically related organisms in a line of descent
  5. lifetime
    the period during which something is functional
  6. millennium
    a span of 1000 years
  7. period
    an amount of time
  8. year
    the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
Created on Wed Feb 10 12:50:42 EST 2010 (updated Thu Jul 08 03:26:22 EDT 2010)

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