Essays Tagged: "Pleistocene"
Woolly Mammoth
.A large-scale habitat would be constructed for this creature since, during theperiod it lived, the Pleistocene, there were no restrictions on the places it could roam to.There was nothing stopping th ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology
Biology School Report- INCLUDES; biodiversity, palaeontology, megafauna, current research.
rave;Bone structureMegafauna·group of very large marsupials that existed in Australia in the Pleistocene era; all were extinct by 40,000-20,000 years ago.·not believed to be the ancestor ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Glaciation.
equator.The last major glacial period began about 2,000,000 years B.P. and is commonly known as the Pleistocene or Ice Age. During this glacial period, large glacial ice sheets covered much of North A ... North America, Europe, and Asia for long periods of time. The extent of the glacier ice during the Pleistocene, however, was not static. The Pleistocene had periods when the glaciers retreated (inter ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
What is the Bering Land Bridge, how did it come about and why is it important to the peopling of the Americas?
n as Beringia was a piece of land that connected Alaska and Siberia during several times during the Pleistocene. The distance between Asia and North America is only about 85km. The land bridge became ... km. The land bridge became as much as 1,500 km wide from north to south during various times of the Pleistocene. What created this to happen were periods of glaciation during the last 1.8 million year ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Humans And Fauna In Australia
if they did, is it possible that they drove them to extinction? Land of the Giants During the late Pleistocene, the last glacial period spanning roughly 100,000 years, the faunas were completely diff ... fference is body size. The term 'megafauna', meaning 'large animals' has been used to describe late Pleistocene animals throughout the world. We know that most species of mammals greater than 60 kg in ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
Carefully explain how sea levels have changed in historic times? (12)
ice age. This "ice age" started around 11500 years ago and marked the final progression out of the Pleistocene, and the influence of large scale ice cover. Then a period of rapid sea level rise ensue ... is is known as the Holocene or Flandrian progression. Due to the fact that the vast majority of the Pleistocene ice had melted by 6000 years ago sea level fluctuations have been relatively slow since ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Oceanography
2001: A Space Odyssey
the movie was called The Dawn of Man. The first scene was said to be in the prehistoric past in the Pleistocene era, four million years ago. The universe had just been born, and the world was still an ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
Australopithecus Vs. Paranthropus
has been created for the skull. Australopithecines can be defined as hominids from the Plio-Pleistocene era in Africa characterized by bipedal locomotion and a relatively small brain. Paranthr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Capybara
ochoerus hydrochaeris, which means "water pig" in Greek. Capybaras have been in existence since the Pleistocene epoch. Their ancient ancestors were rodents that lived about sixty million years ago. Th ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
anthropolgy
of whatever resources are available. As Ames states, " Given the environmental changes of the late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, adaptive flexibility and resilience were essential. There are no cle ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
climate change
to cover the earth's surface. The last glacial period was the most recent glacial period within the Pleistocene epoch, which began about 110,000 years ago and ended about 15,000 years ago (Adams, Masl ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Meteorology