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The last Glacial Epoch.

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1) What is the Quaternary Age?
Geological period of the Earth evolution
Historical period of the Earth evolution
Part of the modern epoch
Part of the Last Glacial Epoch

2) What is Anthropogene?
Geological period of the Earth evolution
Part of the Last Glacial Epoch
Historical period of the Earth evolution, when the Human appearance and development, both ancient and modern, took place
The ancient Human Epoch

3) How did the Ice Age differ from the Glacial Epoch?
The Glacial Epoch is a part of the the Ice Age
By nothing
Different climate
Different animals

4)When did the last Glacial Epoch begin and finish?
20 thousand years ago - 1 thousand years ago
115 thousand years ago - 10 thousand years ago
350 thousand years ago - 300 thousand years ago
1,5 million years ago - 1 million years ago

5) How did the climate of the Glacial Epoch differ from the climate of the InterGlacial Epoch?
The climate of the Glacial Epoch was warmer
By nothing
The climate of the Glacial Epoch was more cold
I don't know

6) What is Holocene?
A part of the the Ice Age
The ancient Human epoch
The name of the animal
The modern geological period of the Earth evolution

7) When did Holocene begin and finish
1 million years ago - 100 thousand years ago
10 thousand years ago – lasts up to now
3 million years ago - 1 million years ago
10 thousand years ago - 5 thousand years ago

8) What is the general title of the animals lived in the last Glacial Epoch?
Giant Animals
The Rhinoceroses
The Bisons
Mammoth Fauna Complex

9) What was the square of the Arctic ice cover ?
About 40 million square kilometres (15,5 million square miles)
About 1 million square kilometres (386 thousand square miles)
About 100 million square kilometres (38,6 million square miles)
1 thousand square kilometres (390 square miles)

10) What element of the Arctic ice cover was on the place of Siberia?
Nothing
The East Siberian shield and the Karskey shield
The Greenland shield
Eurasian shield

11) Choose the main feature of the animals of Mammoth Fauna Complex
Small sizes
Tusks
Trunk
Cold-endurance

12) What American lakes are the rests of giant ice lakes of the last Glacial Epoch?
Such lakes are not present
Upper, Michigan, Guron, Ery and Ontario
Mississippi
Missouri

13) When did the West Siberian lake disappear ?
2 million years ago
100 thousand years ago
16-14 thousand years ago
50 thousand years ago

14) How did the level of the world ocean change in the time of growth of glaciers in the Glacial Epoch?
Decreased
Was not changed
Was increased
Dried up absolutely

15) What geological periods are included in the Quaternary Age?
Neolithic
Pleistocene and Golocene
Palaeolithic
Antropogene

16) When was the territory of Siberia cleared of ice?
100 thousand years ago
1 million years ago
400 thousand years ago
10 thousand years ago