Soc Sci S2 Additional Vocab

Question 1

Perennially frozen ground

Answer 1

Permafrost ; pg. 22

Question 2

Pattern in the Earth’s orbit

Answer 2

Milankovitch cycles ; pg. 23

Question 3

Refers to a location of a cave in northeast India where mineral deposits give evidence of a climatic event

Answer 3

Meghalayan ; pg. 25

Question 4

The period that marks a turn toward the cooler temperatures that would continue in the Late Holocene

Answer 4

Mid-Holocene Transition ; pg. 25

Question 5

A devastating plague that decimated the European population

Answer 5

Black Death ; pg. 33

Question 6

The flow of icy water into the ocean

Answer 6

Meltwater Event ; pg. 25