Water Specific Content

Question 1

What is a real life example of famine drought ?

Answer 1

• Horn of Africa 2012 - 2014

Question 2

What gave researchers found that are a very important factor with droughts?

Answer 2

• sea surface temperature anomalies are an important factor

Question 3

What is a key facts to know with floods in the future?

Answer 3

• Heavy precipitation events led to spectacular flooding, with economic losses rising tenfold from 1990-2010

Question 4

Give a real life example of where lakes or reservoirs have been changed by climate change?

Answer 4

• Lake Chad

Lake Chad has decreased in size and is now 1/20th of its size 40 years ago

Question 5

Where in the world has ice been affected by climate change?

Answer 5

• Tropical altitude glaciers such as the Andes, have shown the most rapid changes, leading to low flow from a dwindling cryosphere supply

Question 6

What does the key term climate dynamics mean?

Answer 6

Climate dynamics = the study of the interlocked system of the atmosphere,ocean, cryosphere, biomass and land surface all of which interact to produce the global culture.

Question 7

Due to climate change what areas of the world are getting hotter and what areas are getting wetter (more prone to floods/droughts) ?

Answer 7

• Due to climate change it is found that wetter regions are getting wetter and drier regions are getting drier ( Northern Europe is getting wetter sand the Sahel region and the Sahara regions are getting drier)

Question 8

We know that the ENSO cycle links into the drought of Australia what is a named example of where this occurred?

Answer 8

• East coast drought of southern Queensland in 2002-3

Question 9

What is a key fact to know with the effects of climate change on stores specifically glaciers ?

Answer 9

• 2018 saw the smallest amount of Arctic ice since the 1960s

Question 10

What are the 5 physical factors affecting flooding levels?

Answer 10

• Vegetation
• Slope
• Soil depth
• Rock type
• Drainage density

Question 11

What are facts to remember with monsoonal rainfall and flooding (this is one of the main physical factors of flooding)?

Answer 11

• Around 80% of Bangladeshi people are vulnerable to flood risk
• Around 70% of the average annual rainfall occurs within 100 days (July - September)
• Pakistan had a disastrous flood in 2010 and primary cause was 9000m m of rainfall in one week which is 10x the yearly average (quick monsoonal rainfall)