Climate and Change

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What is the name of the warm periods of time over the past 100 million years?
Interglacials
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What is the name of the cold periods of time over the past 100 million years?
Glacials
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What was the name of the last ice age 1.8million years ago?
Pleistocene
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What is the warm period we are currently in called?
Holocene
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Eruptions of what naturally cause climate change?
Volcanoes
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Changes in the output of what can result in either global warming or cooling?
The Sun
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Who discovered that changes in the earths orbit causes climate change?
Milankovitch
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Asteroids cause immense amounts of dust to block out the suns radiation and causes global cooling by doing what?
Colliding
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Frost fairs occured on what english river?
Thames
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Which animals flourished in the cooler weather and spread the bubonic Plague
Rats
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