Mitigation and Adpatation Climate Change Flashcards

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Name the three ways we can mitigate against climate change?

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Carbon capture and planting trees, alternative energy and international agreements

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What is carbon capture?

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Trapping Co2 when it is released burning fossil fuels

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How does planting trees help?

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Trees take Co2 out of the atmosphere

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What is alternative energy?

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Clean, renewable energy e.g. solar and wind

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What are international agreements ?

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Countries agree to cur emissions e.g. Durban 2011

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Name three ways we can adapt to climate change?

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

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What is happening to sea levels?

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They are rising

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How are we going to reduce the risk from sea level rise?

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

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Name two reasons why water is becoming scarcer.

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Population increase, agriculture demands and water pollution

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

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Desalination, reservoirs, water saving machines

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Name two ways we are changing agricultural to adapt to climate change.

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Altering the species farmed

Using genetically modified crops

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Name a human and natural cause of climate change.

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Human - burning fossil fuels

Natural - volcanic activity

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