Question

The most recent ice age or cold period, the one we're still in, began about ____ years ago?

A) 100,000 years
B) 10,000 years
C) 2.5 million years
D) 20,000 years

Answer 1

The most recent ice age began about a. 100,000 years ago and ended approximately twelve thousand years ago.

Step-by-step explanation:

The most recent ice age or cold period, the one we're still in, began about a. 100,000 years ago. It reached its peak about eighteen thousand years ago, and ended approximately twelve thousand years ago.

At peak glaciation, ice sheets sometimes two miles thick covered the land around the North Pole and extended outward over much of present-day Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles, Greenland, Canada, and the northern reaches of the United States.