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Chill Factor: Ice Age Showdown

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From woolly mammoths to Milankovitch cycles, test your Ice Age savvy across landforms, megafauna, climate clues, and the humans who thrived at the edge of the ice. This is a Middle School Science review game in a Jeopardy-style format: a teacher puts the board on one screen, teams pick clues by point value, and the class answers out loud — no student devices or accounts needed. Categories: Epochs & Events, Ice Shapes the Land, Clues in the Ice, Ice Age Giants, Humans of the Ice Age.

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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

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

Ice Shapes the Land

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

Clues in the Ice

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

Ice Age Giants

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

Humans of the Ice Age

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

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