Ice Core Data from Greenland Reveal That Rapid Shifts in Climate

question 31

Multiple Choice

Ice core data from Greenland reveal that rapid shifts in climate (from ice age conditions to a much warmer state) took place in as little as ____ over central Greenland around the end of the Younger Dryas.

• A)a century
• B)a decade
• C)​a year
• D)​a thousand years
• E)​four thousand years

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