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It is essential for you to learn how earth's climate change. Find out about ice ages . And much more!

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Climate and Ice Ages

It is essential for you to learn how earth's climate change. Find out about ice ages . And much more!

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4 Climate and ice ages


will:
In this topic you
learn about how the Earth's climate has changed
find out about ice ages, glacial periods and interglacial
periods
look at some evidence that the Earth's climate cycles between
colder and warmer periods.

Getting started Key words


boulder
The photgraph shows the cycle
body of a baby mammoth,
which has been named glacial period
Yuka. Her frozen body glaciers
was discovered in 1977 in Ice ages
eastern Siberia. In that part
interglacial period
of the world, it is so cold
peat bog
that the lower layers of the
soil stay frozen solid all
year round. Scientists think
that Yuka lived and died
about 39000 years ago,
is now.
when the temperature was even colder than it
been preserved for
With a partner, discuss why Yuka's body hasthe
with rest of the class.
so long. Be ready to share your ideas
5 Materials and cycles on Earth

When Yuka was


colder
lce sheets section.
Started was much
Getting Earth covered
Look at the photograph inthe afterwards, theworldthat were
alive, and for thousands of years parts of the
than it is now. The map shows the
by ice sheets 25 000 years ago.

Key
ice sheet

Activity 5.4.1
Where in the World is there ice?
Workinq in agroup of three or tour, use an atlas to find out which
parts of the Earth are covered with ice today.
Compare this with what the Eath looked like 25 000 years ago.
Be ready to share your ideas.
Questions
1 Name a part of the Earth that was covered with ice 25000
years ago, but is no longer covered with ice
2 When vou look at the parts of the Earth that are covered with
ice today, what do they have in common?
Glacial and interglacial periods
very cold period when Yuka lived lasted until
The 10000 vears ago. Because so much of the
about
Earth wasfrozen, it is called a glacial period.
Glacial' means trozen'. Today, the Earth is in an
interglaciallperiod. Inter means "between'. Over the
last450000 vears. the Earth's climate has cycled, or
SWung. between glaciall and interglacial periods.
In an interglacial period, there is permanent ice
close to the North and South Poles.
In a glacial period. the ice spreads much further
sputh from the North Pole and further north When Yuka was alive, the Earth was in a glacial period;
from the South Pole. much more of the Earth was frozen than now

lce ages
Looking even further back in time, scientists have found that this cycle
of glacialperiods and inter-glacial periods did not always happen.
There were long periods of time when Earth was so warm that there was
no permanent ice on its surface, not even at the North Pole or South Pole.

In between these warm periods, there were cold periods,with glacials and
interglacials. These cold periods are called ice ages.
The graph below shows when scientists think the ice ages happened on
Earth. Thev think the second one, which began about 850 million years
ago, was the coldest. Some scientists think that the whole Earth was
covered with ice and snow then. The Earth was like a giant snowball.
ice ice
ice age age age ice age
Ice age
25

20

Average global
temperature 15 -

10

5 1000 500
2000 1500
2500 today
Millions of years ago

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