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During the late Tertiary Period, the continents had movement. This continued until the Qarternary Period until they plotted themselves where they currently are. The continents are spread out on the northern and southern hemispheres. The continents are moving south and south east toward their current territories. Most of the land is in the northern latitudes. Massachusettes is close to the same place that it is today. In addition, Cape Cod does not exist. It formed during the Qarternary Period from glaciers. The climate is currently warm to subtropical. Earlier in this time period, the weather was cold. There were several ice ages that began 1.8 million years ago. The movement of the continents changed how the world looked and also the climate.


 * 1) 3. The Pleistocene happened 1.8 million years to 10,000 years ago. During the Pleistocene the most recent episode of ice ages took place. In the ice age, the ice sheets covered most of the land and killed living things. Pleistocene fossils are often abundant. All of the ice created lower seas and land bridges appear between North America, Asia, and other parts of the world. The era before the Pleistocene, which is in the Cenozoic Era, is the Mezozoic Era. During the Mezozoic Era, the first mammals appeared from warm blooded reptiles. The continents were close together and called Pangea. North America separates from Africa and South America. The climate was hot and dry. Sea levels rise in many parts of the world. The world is now still in the Cenozoic Era. I predict that the world is going to be warmer than it is today. My evidence is that Global Warming is happening now and will continue to the next era. I think the animals that live in cold places in the world will eventually die because of Global Warming. The glaciers will melt and the sea levels will rise. This will cause some land to drown like a drowned drumlin.


 * 1) 4. The life on Earth has had some changes since the Pleistocene. Now, most of the plants, trees and invertebrates are the same as they were in the Pleistocene. But, in the Pleistocene the mammals were different. There were large land mammoths and birds. Mammoths and their cousins the long horned mastodons characterized Pleistocene habitats in North America, Asia, and Europe. Around the end of the Pleistocene, all these creatures went extinct because of weather changes. Modern humans, homo sapiens, appeared in Africa about 100,000 years ago. They had more intelligence than the early man that they evolved from.

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