Which One of the Following Could Not Have Significantly Affected

question 5

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following could not have significantly affected climatic variations, and advances and retreats of ice sheets, during the Pleistocene Epoch?

• A) gradual movements of Earth's tectonic plates
• B) cyclic precession of Earth's orbit
• C) episodic variations in the Sun's energy output
• D) periodic wobbling of Earth's rotational axis

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