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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A peek at what's on the board — 5 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
This epoch, nicknamed the Ice Age, lasted until the recent Holocene.
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Pleistocene
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These steep-sided sea inlets in Norway were carved by glaciers.
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fjords
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Cylinders drilled from Greenland and Antarctica that trap ancient air.
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ice cores
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This shaggy elephant with curved tusks roamed the steppe-tundra.
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woolly mammoth
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This extinct human cousin interbred with us and thrived in Ice Age Europe.
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Neanderthals
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Board content
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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