No, the Earth is not in an ice age right now. The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago.
The previous answer was incorrect. NOW the Earth's surface is covered with ice, but during the most recent ice age, NEARLY 30% of the Earth was covered by ice!I'm a little bold
During the Ice Age, ocean levels were lower than they are now due to a significant portion of the Earth's water being frozen in glaciers and ice sheets. This led to more of the Earth's water being stored on land, resulting in lower sea levels.
During the ice age, much of the Earth's water was locked up in large ice sheets, causing sea levels to be lower than they are today. As the ice sheets melted and retracted over time, the water they released flowed into the oceans, gradually raising sea levels to their current levels.
More of the earths water was frozen
The present ice age started about 2.58 million years ago and it is still with us. There are warm periods within ice ages we call interglacials and we are living in one right now.
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The previous answer was incorrect. NOW the Earth's surface is covered with ice, but during the most recent ice age, NEARLY 30% of the Earth was covered by ice!I'm a little bold
During the Ice Age, ocean levels were lower than they are now due to a significant portion of the Earth's water being frozen in glaciers and ice sheets. This led to more of the Earth's water being stored on land, resulting in lower sea levels.
no, the earth is going the its cycle. The earth was one in an ice age and got really hot to melt all the ice. So it just happening now to us.
No because it is 2011 now and there was no ice age then
Supposedly, in 2009
No: glacial activity occurs in all glacial phases of all Ice Ages, and we now see the results of the latest within the present Ice Age.
The world has not yet emerged from the present ice age. We came out of the last glaciation about 10,000 years ago, (depending on what part of Earth you refer to), and are now in an interglacial, (warm), period between glaciations.
The Ice Age. Domination of land by mammals. Appearance of apes and hominids.
We are in an ice age now. The last glaciation ended about 10,000 years ago depending on which part of Earth you live. There have been many glaciations during the past 2.6 million years.
There are two main ice sheets on Earth: the Greenland Ice Sheet located in Greenland and the Antarctic Ice Sheet situated in Antarctica. These ice sheets hold the majority of the world's fresh water in the form of ice.
No: They were created as a result of the ice age when the earth was much, much colder than it is now.... Millions of years ago.