What is the definition of an ice age?
A time period when the sea levels rose
An animated film franchise
A time period where the continents were frozen together
An ice age is a period of colder global temperatures that features recurring glacial expansion
How many different ice ages do experts believe have taken place on Earth?
Approximately how long ago do experts believe the last ice age came to an end?
1.1 million years ago
11,000 years ago
111,000 years ago
1,000 years ago
During the last ice age, what percentage of the Earth was covered in ice?
What is the official scientific term used to describe the time period of the Great Ice Age?
Mesozoic epoch
Cenozoic epoch
Really Cold Epoch
Pleistocene epoch
What name is given to the large animals that went extinct following the last ice age? Examples include the woolly mammoth, cave bear, and woolly rhinoceros.
Megafauna
Phylum Chordata
Hominidae
Invertebrates
Which option below best describes what human beings were like during the last Ice Age?
Early civilization
Great apes
Early farmers
Hunter-gatherers
Approximately how many degrees Celsius was the last ice age cooler than the average global temperature in the 20th century?
34 degrees
6 degrees
20 degrees
12 degrees
The animal shown here roamed the Earth during the last ice age and went extinct shortly after. What is its name?
Woolly tiger
Saber-toothed tiger
Glyptodon
Mastodon
What is the name of the geological epoch that immediately followed the Pleistocene epoch (the last ice age)?
Paleocene
Holocene
Cambrian
Eocene
The mammal shown here went extinct following the end of the last ice age. What is its name?
Glyptodon
Woolly sloth
Mastodon
Giant ground sloth
In 1939, scientists revealed that a Little Ice Age took place relatively recently. Between which centuries is the Little Ice Age thought to have taken place?
14th and 19th
3rd and 7th
7th and 11th
9th and 14th
The woolly mammoth is thought to have survived for thousands of years on Wrangel Island after having gone extinct throughout the rest of the world. What country does the island belong to?
Russia
Greenland
USA
Canada
This armored animal is thought to be a relative of armadillos that lived during the last ice age. What is its name?
Dasypus
Yepes's mulita
Glyptodon
Giant Ground Armadillo
Approximately how many human beings existed on Earth during the late stages of the last ice age 11,000 years ago?
10,000
10 million
1 million
100,000
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15/15 right on man!!!!
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