1)The most recent glacial advance reached its maximum around ago. a) 400,000 yea

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1)The most recent glacial advance reached its maximum around ago.

a) 400,000 years b) 50,000 years c)20,000 years d)800,000 years ago e)1 million years ago

2)Throughout parts of the last 3 million years, known as the , glaciers covered much of North America.

a)Pleistocene Epoch b) Protozoic Era c) Paleogene Era d)Cenozoic Epoch e) Mesozoic Era

3) Which of the following statements is not true of glaciers?

a) The cause of glaciers shrinking is climatic warming, b)Greenland and Antarctica have two of the worlds largest ice masses, c) In Greenland, there has been substantial thickening of glaciers near the margins of the island. d) Scientists have monitored the largest ice masses in the world particularly intensely because of their potential effects on global sea level e) For the past 200 years, most of the glaciers of the world have been shrinking.

4) The San Andreas Fault is a tyical example of this type of plate boundary.

a) transform b)divergence c)subduction d)convergence e) none of the answer choices are correct

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1)The most recent glacial advance reached its maximum around ago.

Explanation / Answer

1) C) 20,000 years

2) A) Pleistocene Epoch

3) C) In Greenland, there has been substantial thickening of glaciers near the margins of the island.

4) A) transform

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