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1 Ice Age or not? (1) The blue areas are glacial periods (cold) and the yellow are inter-glacial periods (warm). The dates (before the present) are along the bottom (e.g = 100,000 years before present) – work out all the dates and put them on the timeline. Colder Warmer

2 Glacial landscapes (2)

3 Glacial animals (extinct today)
(3) Woolly rhinoceros Woolly mammoth (4)

4 Glacial animals (alive today1)
Reindeer Bison (6) (5) 1But not necessarily living wild in Europe!

5 Interglacial landscapes
(7)

6 Interglacial animals (extinct today)
Straight-tusked elephant Aurochs (wild cattle) (8) (9)

7 Interglacial animals (alive today1)
Hippopotamus Rhinoceros (11) (10) 1But not necessarily living wild in Europe!

8 Interglacial animals (alive today1)
Red deer Przewalski’s horse (13) (12) 1But not necessarily living wild in Europe!

9 Pleistocene predators (extinct today)
Cave lion Cave bear (14) (15)

10 Pleistocene predators (alive today1)
Hyena Wolf (16) (17) 1But not necessarily living wild in Europe!

11 Image sources (I) By Tomruen - Data from ncdc.noaa.gov, and this looks best: Composite CO2 record (0-800 kyr BP), marked up with 230 ppm transition between glacial and interglacial periods., CC BY-SA 3.0, By Mauricio Antón - from Caitlin Sedwick (1 April 2008). "What Killed the Woolly Mammoth?". PLoS Biology 6 (4): e99. DOI: /journal.pbio , CC BY 2.5, By Chemical Engineer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, By Tiia Monto - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, By Alexandre Buisse (Nattfodd) - self-made ( CC BY-SA 3.0, By Michael Gäbler, CC BY-SA 3.0, By Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) - Own work, CC BY 3.0, By H. Osborn, 'Men of the Old Stone Age' - Public Domain, By Charles Hamilton Smith - Public Domain,

12 Image sources (II) By Nevit Dilmen (talk) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 2.0, By Gzen92 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, By Ludovic Hirlimann from 's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands - Cheval de Przewalski, CC BY-SA 2.0, By Sémhur - Own work, FAL, By Sergiodlarosa, CC BY-SA 3.0, By Yathin S Krishnappa - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, By Mas3cf - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,


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