Unit 1A - Climate Change - Managing climate change: mitigation and adaptation

Question 1

Climate change adaption definition?

Answer 1

Actions taken to adjust to natural events such as climate change

Question 2

Mitigation definition?

Answer 2

Actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long term risk to human life and property from natural haazards

Question 3

3 ways we can mitigate against climate change?

Answer 3

Carbon capture and planting trees, alternative energy and international agreements

Question 4

What is carbon capture?

Answer 4

Trapping CO2 when it is released burning fossil fuels

Question 5

How does planting trees help?

Answer 5

Trees take CO2 out of atmosphere

Question 6

What is alternative energy?

Answer 6

Clean, renewable energy e.g. solar, wind

Question 7

What are international agreements?

Answer 7

Countries agree to cut emissions e.g. Durban 2011

Question 8

3 ways we can adapt to climate change?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

How are we going to reduce risk from sea level rise? 2

Answer 9

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

Question 10

3 reasons why water is becoming scarcer?

Answer 10

Population increase, agriculture demands and water pollution

Question 11

3 ways we are managing water to adapt to climate change?

Answer 11

Desalinisation, reservoirs, water saving machines

Question 12

3 ways we are changing agriculture to adapt to climate change?

Answer 12

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