ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - climate change

Question 1

what is happening in the Sahel region due to climate change?

Answer 1

droughts becoming very intense

- temps rising fast

Question 2

what’s happening to the people in the sahel region?

Answer 2

can’t grow food and sustain themselves
livestock dying
malnutrition

Question 3

what is happening the the land in sahel?

Answer 3

deteriorating

desertified land

Question 4

what is happening in the sundarbans, Bangladesh in due to climate change?

Answer 4

sea levels rising in sundarbans

• increase in salinity threaten the health of the mangroves
• disturbances in fish patterns

Question 5

what’s happening to the people in Bangladesh?

Answer 5

4. 37 million people that the mangroves support are finding it difficult
   - monsoons

Question 6

what is happening in Australia?

Answer 6

coral reef bleaching due to rising temperatures

Question 7

what is coral reef bleaching?

Answer 7

coral turns white when water gets too hot, photosynthesis stops happening

Question 8

what is happening in Bangladesh in due to climate change?

Answer 8

flooding because of glacial ice in the Himalayas melting

Question 9

what does the flooding do to the people?

Answer 9

reduces productive agricultural land

forces people to move to already overcrowded Dhaka