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Unit 8 The New Cave Ⅰ. Information related to the text the Ice age An ice age is a period in the earth’s history when moving sheets of ice covered large regions of the world’s land surface. Earth scientists believe that there have been several ice ages. The earliest known ice age occurred about 700 million years ago, and the most recent one, usually referred to as the Ice Age or the Pleistocene Ice Age began about 2 million years ago and continued to 10,000 or 15,000 years ago. Scientists have learned that Ice Age climates changed from time to time. During periods of advancing ice,