Chill Factor: Ice Age Showdown

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This board helps players review Ice Age through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Epochs & Events, Ice Shapes the Land, Clues in the Ice, Ice Age Giants, Humans of the Ice Age. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Epochs & Events

    This epoch, nicknamed the Ice Age, lasted until the recent Holocene.

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    Pleistocene

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  • Ice Shapes the Land

    These steep-sided sea inlets in Norway were carved by glaciers.

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    fjords

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  • Clues in the Ice

    Cylinders drilled from Greenland and Antarctica that trap ancient air.

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    ice cores

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  • Ice Age Giants

    This shaggy elephant with curved tusks roamed the steppe-tundra.

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    woolly mammoth

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  • Humans of the Ice Age

    This extinct human cousin interbred with us and thrived in Ice Age Europe.

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    Neanderthals

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Epochs & Events

$100This epoch, nicknamed the Ice Age, lasted until the recent Holocene.
Pleistocene
$200The most recent peak of ice coverage, often abbreviated LGM.
Last Glacial Maximum
$300These orbital variations in Earth’s tilt and orbit drive glacial cycles.
Milankovitch cycles
$400This brief cold snap near the start of the Holocene is named for an alpine flower.
Younger Dryas
$500These sudden North Atlantic iceberg surges are named for a German researcher.
Heinrich events

Ice Shapes the Land

$100These steep-sided sea inlets in Norway were carved by glaciers.
fjords
$200Ridges of debris left at a glacier’s edge are called these.
moraines
$300Bowl-shaped hollows from melting ice blocks form these lakebeds.
kettle lakes
$400Long, streamlined hills of till shaped beneath ice sheets go by this name.
drumlins
$500Sinuous ridges left by subglacial rivers are known as these.
eskers

Clues in the Ice

$100Cylinders drilled from Greenland and Antarctica that trap ancient air.
ice cores
$200Annual layers in glacial lake sediments used for dating are called these.
varves
$300These tiny seafloor organisms’ shells record ancient ocean temperatures.
foraminifera
$400Windblown silt deposits in China and the Midwest that archive climate shifts.
loess
$500The O-18 to O-16 balance serves as this kind of paleoclimate fingerprint.
oxygen isotope ratios

Ice Age Giants

$100This shaggy elephant with curved tusks roamed the steppe-tundra.
woolly mammoth
$200This prehistoric browser with a trunk is often confused with mammoths.
mastodon
$300The saber-toothed cat famous from La Brea belongs to this genus.
Smilodon
$400This South American giant ground sloth could reach elephant size.
Megatherium
$500This massive North American bear had unusually long legs for running.
short-faced bear

Humans of the Ice Age

$100This extinct human cousin interbred with us and thrived in Ice Age Europe.
Neanderthals
$200This land bridge between Siberia and Alaska enabled human migrations.
Beringia
$300These famed Paleolithic cave paintings in France depict horses and bulls.
Lascaux
$400Portable prehistoric carvings emphasizing female forms are called these.
Venus figurines
$500This Siberian cave yielded DNA from a distinct archaic human group.
Denisova Cave

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