Wednesday, September 28, 2011

What is an Ice age ?

Your writing assignment is to write a story describing changes that might occur in a daily living if a new ice age were to begin. 
Please click on the video link, watch the video for some information about ice ages. 
For even more information watch the ice age video 2. 
You may make a post telling what you learned or enjoyed about these videos 

85 comments:

Julia m said... said... said... said... said...

A ice age is a age of ice

Aleha C :D said...

I learned what would happen if we had an ice age today.

Sarah L said...

I Learned that glaciers deposited sand on the ocean floor

Serena M(: said...

i learned what would really happen if an ice age would happen today or right noww.

kaylee m. said...

i learned that, and ice age can wipeout or freeze power lines.

Oja, Noah said...

i learned that certain spots in a desert area have evidence of an ice age

SammyG said...

if an ice age occurs our cars wouldn't start, and the governors of the northern states would have to make the people evacuate the states. tall buildings would fall because the glaciers would move into them, covering everything in ice. it would also carry drop rocks to other places, like they showed in the video.

Alexis F. said...

1. There is a rock that showed that the area was covered with ice.
2. A glacier i a mountain covered with snow and ice.

Nicole c. said...

I learned what would happen if an ice age happened today or right now.

Jasmine M. said...

In Australia they discovered rock that didn't belong there. they think that they were from glaciers. At first they thought that the things that valley glaciers caused were from the great flood in the bible.

Brian B said...

I learned that at one time we had a ice age and during the ice age water overtook land and left lakes in the land.We have also found animal skeltons that only would be here if we had a ice age.

Camille D said...

I liked the first video where it showed what life would be like if an ice age happened today. I learned that glaciers deposit stuff when they move and they leave behind marks> :D

Nate B. said...

I enjoyed the second video because the mentioned Prehistory and mammoths

Jewel C said...

I learned that there are these stones that were carried by ice.

Rhiannon J said...

I earned what would happen if there was an ice age now.

alexander p said...

I learned that the ice happened three times.

Kyle M2 said...

I learned that the scientists have ice samples from every year in the past to see how cold it was.

Anonymous said...

i learned that you can tell the age of ice be counting the small ridges on the inside and outside.

Gavin lego

Kyle M1 said...

I learned that a glacier only moves about 1 inch per year sometimes.

JordanF said...

i like the first video because it explains what would happen if an ice age occured

molly m said...

The first video was about what would happen to people and daily life.Some people would freeze to death others would be in trouble.The roads would freeze and crack.The second video was about what would happen to animals and earth if we were to have an ice age.

emile w said...

I liked the second video because it was very informant

Rand N. said...

I liked video 1 because it talks about the earth if a glacier happened right now and what would happen to mankindand

Hannah N :D said...

I learned that it's very hard to survive in this weather or Ice - age.

Gail L(: said...

I learned what it would if there was an ice age

Bayli L. (: said...

I learned what would happen if we had an ice age now.

Maddie C said...

I learned that at one time we had a ice age and during the ice age water overtook land and left lakes in the land.We have also found animal skeletons that only would be here if we had a ice age.

Kiyah said...... said...

I learned that at one time we had a ice age and during the ice age water overtook land and left lakes in the land.We have also found animal skeltons that only would be here if we had a ice age

Anonymous said...

Emilym ~

i learned that a ice age can wipe out a world

tyla g said...

I think the way they thought what would happen for snowball earth was a good thought but not very plesent.

Emily W said...

I learned that an ice age can make everything cold even on the Equater. They have found animal skeletons from another ice age.

Julia M said... said... said...

i learned what would happen if an ice age happened today or any time soon

Bourque,Dale said...

The first video was about what would happen to people and daily life.Some people would freeze to death others would be in trouble.The roads would freeze and crack.The second video was about what would happen to animals and earth if we were to have an ice age.

kyle L said...

if an ice age occurs our cars wouldn't start, and the governors of the northern states would have to make the people evacuate the states. tall buildings would fall because the glaciers would move into them, covering everything in ice. it would also carry drop rocks to other places, like they showed in the video.

Emily G. :-) said...

I learned that glaciers deposited sand on the ocean floor. And I learned what would happen if we had a ice age today.

Sabrina D:) said...

I learned that it would be very hard to live if we had another ice age

Dillon M said...

i learned that man kind would die if there was a ice age

Stephen F said...

i liked the fist video better. and if it did happen i would hope that it didnt happen

SoPhIaA. said...

ONE. This makes me think. What would happen if the earth turned into an ice ball. Where would we go to, what happens to the people we love :'( !!!! We would all be improperly buried.

TWO. I learned that glaciers could have possibly deposit rocks, sands, and sediments.

Grace B said...

I enjoyed the pictures of the pluckings and how they though that valleys were caused by a biblical flood at firt. I also enjoyed the fossils of the animals from the different climates.

Bearor, Katie :) said...

This video will really will help me with my story. This gives me new ideas for my story. Very cool to know what might happen if there was an ice age today.

Liz N. :) said...

What would happen to the people in daily life if an ice age actually happened was in video 1 fish die the ocean freezes over cars wouldn't start people would freeze to death, and any survivors would live the rest of their few days out in this horrible snowball of a place they call their home earth. The second video was about how an Ice age would effect animals in their daily life. Like the frozen over ocean all the animals who have lived in the ocean for years would die, fish whales, dolphins, and many more. For the animals who live on land it would be a different story, some would freeze, others would have stored food and probaly go into hibernation others would try to stay warm but would fail, others would succeed to stay warm but would fail to find food, some would get hunted by hungry predators.

Erik C said...

I learned what drop stones were and what several types of landforms looked like such as kettle holes and drumlins.

Ronahn said...

I enjoyed the shorter video (video one) because it provided a good idea of what the earth would be like if there was an ice age today. I also liked the experiments in the second video.

Tanner M said...

I thought that the drop stones were very cool. I had never really thought about how the earth was a long long time ago and I guess it is true that many thousands of years ago deserts were covered in layers of ice. Also i have a lot of new ideas for my story. It's crazy how these videos make you think so much about what has gone on in the past.

Ian C said...

I learned what drop stones are and different land form caused by glaciers.

matt c said...

most if not all of the human and animal races would die out within a couple of months then earth would be a big frozen piece of rock.

Tanner M said...

The world we be so different if an ice age happened again, fish, animals dying, glaciers taking down every thing its path. Humans would not survive, the world would be done

Archer t said...

The first one made me very afraid. I don't want an ice age. At least, in reality an ice age is probably going to happen a long time from now. The dropstones were also very cool

sarah m said...

I learned what the earth would look like if we had another ice age. Also i learned that Antarctica use to be a lot closer to the equator.

sarah m said...

I learned what the earth would look like if we had another ice age. Also i learned that Antarctica use to be a lot closer to the equator.

Spencer P. Shields said...

I liked the part in the first video when they said what would happen to humans. I liked this better because it gave you an idea of what would happen to the earth if we had an ice age today. It left me wondering how fast an ice age actually spread?

Connor P said...

I learned that the ice age can be caused by ocean currents, co2 level,and sun light. They predict that if nothing goes wrong we won't have an ice age for another 16 thousand year. If something did happen, many people would die because of frail structures. Water lines would be cut off. Fossil fuels such as oil would freeze. The human population would collapse. The temperature even at the equator would be below zero Celsius. The Earth wouldn't be the same. The few humans that did survive would have to start all over and kind of act like the cave men of the last ice age.

Isaiahp said...

I learned that drop stones can form from an area and I don't want an ice age to happen when there are still people living on this earth.

Holly J said...

I learned that Antarctica used to be a lot closer to the other continents and glaciers can move way faster than I expected them to. I also learned what the earth looked like during an ice age.

Sara H said...

I learned what would happen if an ice age really happened and that ice ages have happened three times in the earth's life time.

I thought how the glaciers can spread quickly from the poles was interesting and I also thought that the part about how the glaciers can move those big boulders was interesting to think about.

Kasey G. said...

I learned that the entire Earth would freeze over, and the human race would most likely, become extinct.

Gracie N(: said...

I learned what would happen if we had an ice age today, and also glaciers deposit sand to the ocean floor.

Aaron R said...

I learned that that there could be another ice age if nothing goes wrong in 16,000 years but there is always something going wrong. this would be very bad for human civilization because there would be many deaths and our society might crumble. Although, if this happend in 16,000 years we may be able to handle it and not die. I think that if an ice age happend now though we wouldn't stand a chance according to the video. I personly think though, that if Human beings and other animals could handle it it would be awesome. We could ski ALL YEAR ROUND! the glaciers would especially cause us some trouble though. though. If the glaciers can erode valleys like that then the would erode our structures very fast unless we discover a metal or something else that could hold up to a massive glacier that is a mile deep or we could try to live on top of the glacier and try to survive the harsh conitions.

Cameron T. said...

I learned that ice ages can be caused by a lot of different things. Also it was interesting that glaciers will start out from the north pole and migrate down. Also it was cool that a glacier could move that big of a rock.

Lucas T said...

What i liked about the movie was learning that dropstones are different color that actual stone.
Also i liked the world becoming an ice world :)

Nick M. said...

I thought the first video was better then the second. The guy in the second video was a little boring, and the first video had moving pictures. They also showed what it would be like to be like to be in another ice age in the first one. I did enjoy them both though, and I would hope everyone else did. But I thought it was creepy when the guy opened the car door and all of a sudden another guy falls out and his skin is blue. But anyway, I liked them and I would like to watch the first one again. I thought it was crazy when the power lines and buildings were collapsing. Also when they showed the land from a helicopter view, the buildings looked so weird! Every one was covered in snow so badly it looked like each one was a big white stone. I couldn't imagine what the people in side would feel like, being trapped inside or especially being trapped outside. I don't know what I would do if I was in a new ice age. I would probably stay in our car with the heat on if it started at all. Then when it ran out of gas or power or froze up, I would head into the house, again, if it was possible to enter the house. If that didn't work or the roof sounded like it was going to collapse under all the weight, then I would head back outside with as much clothes as I could wear, and head out to find a different source of warmth. Maybe another house or car that isn't totally frozen or collapsed, or maybe a building. I probably would try to survive any way possible, and I would try to take my family with me. I would even jump into an oven if I had to. Anything to survive would be good. I would help anyone who needed it and take my family everywhere I could. I hope everyone would do the same. If I couldn't take my family then I don't think I would know what to do. My mom and dad would probably help handle my two sisters, and they would also probably give suggestions. I would also probably work my way down to warmer parts of the world. Like South America or something. Let's just say that I probably wouldn't last long before I died or someone else died. If my family and/or friends died, I don't know what I would do with myself. I know I wouldn't what the guy in the video did. Just sit in a car until he died. Now out of all the things he could have done, that was not a very good choice. Like he actually sat in a car that wasn't even on and sat there until he was dead. I know I wouldn't do that. Anyway, I think I should finish this up, so let's just say that I would do anything to survive and help my friends and family survive to.....and I hope everyone else would do the same.

Will P said...

The first movie I thought was very good. It was short and sweet but it had a ton of information and it was very fun to watch. It was definitely more fun to watch than the second movie, but the second movie, did not have many animated scenes that made it look cool, and the whole point of snowball earth really grasped my attention. Also the second movie was very long, and it gave a lot of the same information as the first video. So the second one got a little boring. But onto the scientific aspects of the movies: I really got hooked by the idea of snow ball earth. In fact a lot of my ice age story for class had a lot in common with the snowball earth video. With the earth freezing over and almost everyone dieing. Another thing interesting about snowball earth is how they thought not of just what it would do physically to the climate, but also how it would effect everything in it. How it mentioned that buildings would collapse, cars wouldn't start, and also how the ocean would freeze over. That would kill all the fishies... :( I'm still a little skeptical on the whole ocean freezing over thing though... With the mass of the ocean and how cold it is at the poles, but even the poles are hiving trouble keeping their ice. So in my opinion even if the Earth went spiraling down into another ice age, I don't believe that the oceans would freeze over. But none the less the video makes you think... Would/will the human race survive when the next ice age happens. This is also a good time for me to take my sie saying: There WILL be another ice age in some time of years in the future, so I still say global warming in fake... Just natural climate change. ON TO THE SECOND VIDEO: I thought the second video was very good. It was a little bit more dull than the first video, but I also think that it gave a little more factual information than the first one instead of. 'What could happen' I liked the thinking of the people that said that the U shaped valleys couldn't have been shaped by rivers, for the rivers make a V shaped valley. But a glacier would fit perfectly. I also like how it talks about how the glaciers pick up these MASSIVE rocks, and deposit them in places that rocks like that shouldn't be. Both videos said this so I think it was a very important piece in proving how powerful the ice ages and glaciers are. The second video also talks about how the glaciers dropped big piles of gravel... Why do they only get dropped in a giant pile and not spread out in a large area of land? In this video they talk about all this stuff over Europe. Why do they only find this stuff in Europe? Why not in Africa? And that brings me to my next point. Is it possible to have an ice age only on one continent? If so, maybe Europe has been in an ice age more recently that the rest of the world and that's why all this stuff shows up in Europe. It's also pretty cool how the ocean level was so low in the ice age. That people could just walk across Asia into North America. And then when the ice melted again they were cut off from the rest of the world. Those are the reasons I think that these videos are really cool and I would definitely watch them again.

joshua t said...

if an ice age occurs our cars wouldn't start, and the governors of the northern states would have to make the people evacuate the states. tall buildings would fall because the glaciers would move into them, covering everything in ice. it would also carry drop rocks to other places, like they showed in the video.

joshua t said...

if an ice age occurs our cars wouldn't start, and the governors of the northern states would have to make the people evacuate the states. tall buildings would fall because the glaciers would move into them, covering everything in ice. it would also carry drop rocks to other places, like they showed in the video.

joshua t said...

if an ice age occurs our cars wouldn't start, and the governors of the northern states would have to make the people evacuate the states. tall buildings would fall because the glaciers would move into them, covering everything in ice. it would also carry drop rocks to other places, like they showed in the video.

Kacee Brinkerhoff said...

I learned what the earth would look like if we had another ice age. Also i learned that Antarctica use to be a lot closer to the equator.What i liked about the movie was learning that dropstones are different color that actual stone. It was really cool

Lauryn f said...

i learned that sediments drop to the ocean floor

Cheyenne R said...

if an ice age occurs our cars wouldn't start, and the governors of the northern states would have to make the people evacuate the states. tall buildings would fall because the glaciers would move into them, covering everything in ice. it would also carry drop rocks to other places, like they showed in the video.

Lizzy G said...

I learned that it is not fun to have anice age in our area.

Peter m said...

the cars will not start in a ice age

Lacey A(: said...

glaicers Despose.

Traciee:) T said...

I learned what would happen if we had a ice age now.

Eli G said...

IF AN ICE AGE HIT WE WOULD HAVE TO USE SOLAR PANNELS AND EAT SNOW

caelin w said...

the movies were very nice and i liked them very much and the ice age was a interesting time to live in i wish i could learn more about the ice age .

Peter m said...

cars will not start in a ice age

jason p said...

When and if an ice age occurs our cars wouldnt start and the governors of the northern states would have to make the people evacuate the states. Tall buildings would fall because the glaciers would move into them covering everything in ice. It would also carry drop rocks to other places like they showed in the video.

charlie a said...

i don't want to live there

Christopher N. said...

i learned that another ice age might happen

ricky a said...

if we had another ice age then we would have to gather a lot of food, find good sturdy shelter, and weapons for protection, and get warm clothes & the survivors would be at a free for all

C.J. M said...

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the pipes would freeze, car wouldnt work millions would die of frostbite and other things, and the people would act like in the movie "the book of eli"(killing each other and taking thier stuff not being able to read etc.)

liamf364 said...

that would be very scary if we had a huge ice age!!

Sammy P said...

tall glaciers will knock down building, our cars wouldn't start because it would be to cold, and rocks might fall and kill people..... D=

jarred s said...

I learned that at one time we had a ice age and during the ice age water overtook land and left lakes in the land.We have also found animal skeletons that only would be here if we had a ice age.

Jacqueline L. said...

the thing i enjoyed was learning about the ice age again... because i learned in read180 it was very different the first time but the second time i'm used to it