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my name's rebecca. i doubt you're even mildly interested in the irrelevant aspects of my life, so i'll get to the point. i'm not a professional psychologist nor do i pretend to be, yet i'll try to give you advice based on the common sense that, unlike many others on here, i own ;]
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um after the ice age.. like i heard that we're still in it since greenland and antarctica ice sheets havent completely melted what happens? cause we seem to be getting warmer which i think is also increasing faster due to like.. greenhouse gases and stuff. so.. will we in years to come be like.. super warm on earth? and during the ice age how did people survive. infact were humans around during the ice age? can you clue me in to a history of our time with the earth and stuff? include info on dinosaurs.. stuff like that so it makes sense to me, im just 13 and interested. also i heard that noah (in the christian bible.. the guy with the ark of animals) was real and lived near egypt and there was a big flood on the Nile.. so it is a real story, but perhaps exaggerated? explain please. and supervolcanoes.. im scared of them. what if that thing in yellowstone erupts? what would be signs if it were to erupt? how DO volcanoes erupt and why? plus is it possible to fall into a volcano? like is there this big hole at the top.. i mean then why would anyone wanna hike up a volcano. and if you fall in is it like instant death or what? *shiverz just thinking about it* by the way feel free to use christian terms since well im a christian
Wow, lots of questions! I'll try to answer them in the order you asked.
No, we're not still in the ice age. In the ice age, a very large portion of Earth was completely covered in ice and glaciers. This is not happening right now. Yes, we will be getting warmer due to global warming. Humans are releasing so many bad gasses into the ozone which is causing the global temperature to drastically increase. I read that in 35 years, it will be impossible to go outside for 10 minutes without being burned. I can't vouch for the accuracy of that, though.
Yeah, humans were alive during the ice age. They were obviously very cold and many died from the cold. They hunted wooly mammoth and cave bears and all that stuff. They wore lots of fur to keep warm.
The planet Earth started out as a big planet covered entirely in hot, bubbling lava and extreme heat, similar to the current planet Venus. Eventually it cooled and the first tiny organisms were formed. They eventually evolved into things like fish, frogs, chickens, and dinosaurs. No one knows what really killed the dinosaurs-- it could be an asteroid, ice age, climate change, etc.
Noah is not a real story. There was not some guy who talked to God and gathered two of every animal onto a big boat. But there was really a flood. Noah is just a story that goes along with the flood.
I googled 'supervolcano' and found that if the Yellowstone Supervolcano ever erupted, there'd be horrible effects. Volcanic ash would literally cover all of the United States at least a cm high. There would be mass destruction and many people would die. The thick ash would bury large parts of the country, and an enormous amount of volcanic gasses would get released into the atomosphere, dramatically changing would climate. Apparently the Yellowstone volcano had it's worst eruption 2.1 million years ago.
Volcanoes erupt because they make magma, which turns into lava. The lava starts to rise up the volcano and collects rocks and ash as it does this. When it gets to the top of the volcano, the lava will blast out. The volcano will literally blow it's top off. It is very possible to fall in one. A few months ago, a tourist fell into the Congo volcano and died.
Hope I helped!!
EDIT: The Earth IS going to end one day. It sounds really really scary, but it will. In about 5 billion years, the sun is going to burn out. So that will effectively kill all of humanity, if humans are still even alive in 5 billion years anyway. I think I also read that the next ice age may come in about 20,000 years. So what will happen then? Nobody really knows for sure.
People in the ice age were not very advanced. I don't know of any specific people in the time period, but if you google "people in ice age" you'll get lots of information.
I agree with you about religion and science not mixing. I'm Jewish and I've always heard the story of Adam and Eve, and how G-d created the world in a week, but I've come to accept that as a STORY. I'm not going to steer you away from your own religious beliefs, but personally, I believe in evolution. There's too much evidence, and Adam and Eve is just a story, IN MY OPINION.
(Rating: 5) Thanks.. the volcano thing is still mad scary to me. so when the earth gets like REALLY hot whats gonna happen after most of us dies? it will just keep getting hot or will it eventually stop and then cool then it stops then cools or will it just make humans extinct or will it be the total end of our earth (cause i also hear of all these like comets that may hit earth or something.) its so weird to think about that. are there any stories of people from the ice age? or were they cavemen or something. and I dunno.. like in the bible it says god just made the animals and they didnt just like go thru evolution so its hard for me to believe some of it. religion and science dont always mix and so its hard to find a common ground :/ but thanks anyways for the help and oh yea i put some more Q's in here and it would be nice if you'd answer them too if you had the time.