Mitigation And Adaption - Climate Change

Question 1

Name three ways we can mitigate against climate change.

Answer 1

Carbon capture and planting trees, alternative energy and international agreements

Question 2

What is carbon capture?

Answer 2

Trapping Co2 when it is released burning fossil fuels

Question 3

How does planting trees help reduce the effects of climate change?

Answer 3

Trees take Co2 out of the atmosphere

Question 4

What is alternative energy?

Answer 4

Clean, renewable energy e.g. solar and wind

Question 5

What are international agreements?

Answer 5

Countries agree to cut emissions e.g. Durban 2011

Question 6

Name three ways we can adapt to climate change.

Answer 6

Manage water supplies, change agriculture and reduce the risk from sea level rise

Question 7

What is happening to the sea levels because of climate change?

Answer 7

They’re rising

Question 8

How can you reduce the risk from rising sea levels?

Answer 8

Build more coastal defences. Uk abandon areas at risk from coastal flooding

Question 9

Name three reasons why water is becoming scarcer.

Answer 9

Population increase, agriculture demands and water pollution

Question 10

Name three ways we are managing water to adapt to climate change.

Answer 10

Desalinisation, reservoirs, water saving machines

Question 11

Name three ways we are changing agriculture to adapt to climate change.

Answer 11

Altering the species farmed
Using genetically modified crops
Draining water to prevent logging, erosion, and nutrient leaching where rainfall increases

Question 12

Name a human and natural cause of climate change.

Answer 12

Human - burning fossil fuels

Natural - volcanic activity