ice age
Ice ages include repeated colder glacial intervals. This topic is part of Earth History within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 8 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
ice age trivia questions
An ice age is a long period when large areas of Earth have what?
Answer: Ice sheets and glaciers
Bonus fact: Ice ages include repeated colder glacial intervals.
We are currently living within what broad climatic state?
Answer: An ice age
Bonus fact: Permanent ice sheets still exist in Greenland and Antarctica.
The most recent major glacial maximum occurred roughly how many years ago?
Answer: 20,000 years ago
Bonus fact: Ice sheets reached their maximum late-Pleistocene extent around 20,000 years ago.
Which mammoth species is famous for thick fur and Ice Age cold adaptation?
Answer: Woolly mammoth
Bonus fact: Woolly mammoths were adapted to cold steppe environments.
During Ice Age low sea levels, the Bering Strait region formed what land connection?
Answer: Bering Land Bridge
Bonus fact: Beringia connected Asia and North America.
What type of estuary forms when rising sea level floods an existing river valley?
Answer: Drowned river valley estuary
Bonus fact: Many North American coastal-plain estuaries formed after the last ice age.
What is the scientific name of the classic European cave bear?
Answer: Ursus spelaeus
Bonus fact: The species disappeared near the end of the last Ice Age, before many other famous megafauna vanished.
Woolly mammoths were adapted to what climate?
Answer: Cold Ice Age climate
Bonus fact: Thick fur and fat helped them survive cold steppe environments.