Earth's climate history, including past ice ages and major climate shifts, presented neutrally and conceptually, one fact per card.
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- When did the last ice age end?
- Approximately 11,700 years ago
- How long did the most recent glacial period last?
- About 100,000 years
- What astronomical cycles influence ice age timing?
- Earth's orbital eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession
- How many major ice ages occurred during the Pleistocene?
- At least four
- What is the warm interval between two ice ages called?
- An interglacial
- How much colder was the peak of the last ice age than today?
- About 4 to 7 degrees Celsius colder on average
- How much lower were ocean sea levels during the last glacial maximum?
- Approximately 120 meters lower
- What geographic regions were covered by ice sheets 20,000 years ago?
- Canada, northern Europe, and high-latitude areas extending to about 40 degrees north
- What was the Younger Dryas?
- A sudden cold period lasting roughly 1,200 years immediately after the last ice age
- When was the Holocene Thermal Maximum?
- Between 9,000 and 5,000 years ago
- What time period does the Medieval Warm Period cover?
- Approximately 900 to 1300 CE
- When did the Little Ice Age occur?
- Approximately 1300 to 1850 CE
- What is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum?
- A rapid global warming event that occurred about 56 million years ago
- What does the Snowball Earth hypothesis propose?
- That Earth's surface was covered almost entirely by ice and snow multiple times during the Proterozoic Eon
- What was the global climate like during the Cretaceous Period?
- Warm with no permanent ice at the poles and tropical-like conditions at high latitudes
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