Impacts Of Climate Change

Question 1

Low lying coastal areas

Answer 1

Bangladesh affected with large scale displacement of people, loss of land, destruction of property

Question 2

More extreme and variable weather

Answer 2

Floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes more frequent and intense

Question 3

Increase in precipitation

Answer 3

Winter in Scotland

Great Plains get drier

Question 4

Tropical disease

Answer 4

Increases

Such as Malaria in Africa

Question 5

Longer growing season

Answer 5

In Europe which increases food production and range of crops being grown

Question 6

Impact on wildlife and natural habitat

Answer 6

Extinction of 10% of land species and coral reefs bleached

Question 7

Changes to ocean current circulation

Answer 7

Considerably colder winters

Thermohaline circulation loses impact on NW Europe

Question 8

Increased risk of forest fires

Answer 8

Australia and California due to change in surface temperatures and in rainfall patterns

Question 9

Sea level

Answer 9

Rises as it expands with heat and also by the melting of glaciers and ice caps in Greenland, Antarctica