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Description: Causes of Ice Ages

Variations in Earth’s orbit
Milankovitch hypothesis
Shape (eccentricity) of Earth’s orbit varies
Angle of Earth’s axis (obliquity) changes
Axis wobbles (precession)
Changes in climate over the past several hundred thousand years are closely associated with variations in Earth’s orbit

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