Beringia

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/beringia

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the submergence timeline?Became submerged by rising sea levels around 11,000 years before present (YBP)
2. Where was Beringia located?It stretched from the Lena River in Russia to the Mackenzie River in Canada, and reached down to the Kamchatka Peninsula. Beringia covered about 1.6 million square kilometers, a size similar to British Columbia and Alberta together.
3. Why was Beringia important for animals and people?Beringia let animals like mammoths, horses, and bison move between continents, and it was the main path for early human hunters to travel from Asia into North America. It helped both animals and people explore new lands.

Pleistocene Epoch: A geological epoch characterized by repeated glaciations and the dominance of large mammals.
Paleogeography: The study of the geography of past geological ages.
Biogeography: The study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.