Question

Milankovitch cycles are used to explain the cycles of cold and warm climates that characterized the ice ages based on ________.

Answer 1

Milankovitch cycles are based on the variations in the orbit of the Earth around the sun and the precession of the axis of the Earth. These cycles are used to explain the cold and warm climates cycles that characterizes during the ice age.The cycles in this are results of the changes in the orbit of the Earth around the sun which includes it eccentricity, shape, the tilt of the axis and its obliquity.