What Happened to a Large Proportion of the Large Game

question 96

Multiple Choice

What happened to a large proportion of the large game animals in North America at the end of the Pleistocene?

• A) they journeyed back to Asia on the Bering Land Bridge, following the cold environments to which they were adapted
• B) they migrated south to the southern tip of South America and from their followed the ice floes to Antarctica
• C) they became extinct
• D) they evolved adaptations to the warmer, post-Pleistocene climate

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