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During an ice age, the Earth's surface experiences changes in the form of advancing and retreating glaciers, the expansion of polar ice sheets, and the lowering of sea levels due to the transfer of water to glaciers. These changes can lead to the sculpting of landscapes through erosion and the formation of land bridges due to changes in sea levels.
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During the last ice age how much of the earths surface was covered by glaciers?
30%
How does absorption of solar energy by the earths surface changes in the ice age?
During an ice age, the increased presence of ice and snow on the Earth's surface can lead to more solar energy being reflected back into space, rather than being absorbed by the surface. This can contribute to cooling temperatures and potentially prolonging the ice age.
During the last ice age how much of the earth's surface was covered by glaciers?
30%
Glacial periods are caused by?
changes in Earth's orbit and tilt, which affect the amount of sunlight reaching different parts of the Earth's surface. These changes lead to the reduction of temperature and the accumulation of ice, resulting in glacial periods.
How does the Earth's surface change during an ice age?
During an ice age, large ice sheets advance over land, changing the landscape by eroding rocks and reshaping valleys and river systems. Sea levels drop as water is stored in glaciers, exposing continental shelves. This results in the creation of new land bridges and changes to coastlines.
Why is Michigan shape like a mitten?
During the Great Ice Age glaciers shaped the earths surface created a mitten shape.
During the last ice age how much of the earths surface was covered by glaciers?
30%
How does absorption of solar energy by the earths surface changes in the ice age?
During an ice age, the increased presence of ice and snow on the Earth's surface can lead to more solar energy being reflected back into space, rather than being absorbed by the surface. This can contribute to cooling temperatures and potentially prolonging the ice age.
During the recent ice age glaciers covered almost what percent of earths land?
During the recent ice age, glaciers covered almost 30 percent of earths land.
How did the dinosuars died?
At present the main theory is that they died as a result of the weather change caused by a massive meteor strike on the earths surface. it threw so much dust and debris into the atmosphere that it resulted in an ice age.
Architecture during the Golden Age?
how did architecture change during the golden age
When the earths warmed after the ice age a major change happened in a way people?
Secured their food
How did Ice Age form?
the ice age formed by the temperture of earths surface and atmosphere droping to very cold tempertures to the negatives freezing most of the worlds oceans
Compare the Earths climate today with its climate during the ice age?
it's warmer and drier now, than during the Ice Ages
Which statement describes how the absorption of solar energy by the Earth's surface changes during an ice age?
During an ice age, the Earth's surface is covered by a larger area of ice and snow. This increased ice and snow cover increases the Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, causing more solar energy to be reflected back into space rather than being absorbed by the surface. As a result, the absorption of solar energy by the Earth's surface decreases during an ice age.
What does period during which low temperatures caused large areas of earths warter to freeze mean?
That would be an ice age.
How much was earth's surface was covered by glaciers during the last ice age?
30%
