EARTH SCIENCE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
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when glaciers are building, we are currently in an interglacial period
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when glaciers are retreating, we are currently in an interglacial period
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when glaciers are building, during an ice age
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none of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate between glacial periods . The Last Glacial Period ended about 15, 000 years ago. The Holocene is the current interglacial.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most recent glacial period occurred between about 120, 000 and 11, 500 years ago. Since then, Earth has been in an interglacial period called the Holocene.
Detailed explanation-3: -During an ice age, a glacial is the period of time where glacial advancement occurs. Similarly, an interglacial or interglacial period is the warmer period of time between ice ages where glaciers retreat and sea levels rise.
Detailed explanation-4: -In between the cold ice ages are periods of thawing and warming known as interglacial periods, during which sea levels rise and ice retreats.
Detailed explanation-5: -Within an ice age are multiple shorter-term periods of warmer temperatures when glaciers retreat (called interglacials or interglacial cycles) and colder temperatures when glaciers advance (called glacials or glacial cycles).