成才之路英语（人教版·十二省区）选修8配套课件：Unit 5.pptVIP

“Around 500,000 years ago, at the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian in Beijings suburban Fangshan district，which is about 50 km from the city of Beijing, there lived early human beings，” says a China history textbook. Over Earths long history, there have been a number of times when ice and snow covered a large part of its surface. Such periods are known as ice ages. Earth is in an ice age now. It started about 2 million years ago. Despite the many warm periods since then, scientists regard the whole time as one ice age because of the continuous existence of at least one large ice sheet—the one