Climate Change: Previous Climates

Question 1

What era are you looking at?

Answer 1

Cenozoic era

Question 2

What part of the cenobitic era are you studying?

Answer 2

Neogene

Question 3

What period in the Neogene are you studying?

Answer 3

Quaternary

Question 4

When does the Quaternary period start and end?

Answer 4

2.58MYA - Today

Question 5

What are the two epochs in the Quaternary period, how are the years divided between them and which one are you mainly looking at?

Answer 5

Pleistocene (2.58MYA-11,400 years ago)

Holocene (11,400 years ago - today) This is the one you mainly look at

Question 6

What is the Pleistocene epoch considered to be and why?

Answer 6

The Ice age because it experienced 7 major glaciation periods, where 30% of the land was covered with ice.

Question 7

What started to happen in the Holocene epoch after the Pleistocene epoch?

Answer 7

It started to warm up immediately and the trend has continued

Question 8

When is the Little Ice Age considered to have begun and ended?

Answer 8

1550-1800

Question 9

Why does the LIA get its name?

Answer 9

TEMPREATURE CHANGE - VERY COLD

Question 10

When did the earth form?

Answer 10

4.6 Billion Years ago