Year 4

How will climate change affect migration?

In this lesson, we will be learning about what climate change is and how it is creating climate refugees. We will be looking at two main causes of climate refugees and these are rising sea levels and droughts.

Year 4

How will climate change affect migration?

In this lesson, we will be learning about what climate change is and how it is creating climate refugees. We will be looking at two main causes of climate refugees and these are rising sea levels and droughts.

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Key learning points

  1. Explain what climate change is and how the climate is changing
  2. Examine how climate change is creating climate refugees

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7 Questions

Q1.
What is a refugee?
Correct answer: A person who has been forced to leave their home due to war, persecution or a natural disaster.
Somebody who chooses to move to a new host country to find a better-paid job.
Someone who moves from one place to another place.
Q2.
What does 'persecution' mean?
being treated fairly
Correct answer: being treated unfairly because of their race, or religious or political beliefs.
given protection because they are escaping war
Q3.
What is an asylum seeker?
Someone who is looking for protection and their claim has been accepted.
Correct answer: Someone who is looking for protection and their claim has not yet been accepted.
Q4.
From this list of countries, which country do migrants from Syria not pass through to get to Europe?
Egypt
Italy
Jordan
Correct answer: Mexico
Q5.
Why are refugees fleeing Syria?
Correct answer: because of a civil war
because of a world war
Q6.
Is fleeing Syria to move to the United Kingdom an example of a national or international migration?
Correct answer: international migration
national migration
Q7.
Is fleeing Syria to move to the United Kingdom an example of a voluntary or forced migration?
Correct answer: forced migration
voluntary migration

8 Questions

Q1.
What is climate?
Correct answer: average weather conditions in an area
experiencing all four seasons (autumn, winter, spring and summer)
hot weather
the weather on a particular day
Q2.
What is the climate like in the Caribbean?
cold
dry
freezing
Correct answer: hot
Q3.
What is the climate like in the Mountainous West?
cold
dry
freezing
Correct answer: it has a very diverse climate, depending on the area
wet
Q4.
What extreme weather affects the Caribbean?
Correct answer: hurricanes
sandstorms
snowstorms
tornadoes
Q5.
What does climate change lead to?
consistent and extreme weather
consistent and predictable weather
predictable weather
unpredictable and consistent weather
Correct answer: unpredictable and extreme weather
Q6.
How will climate change affect the Caribbean?
less hurricanes, longer dry seasons and shorter wet seasons
more sandstorms, longer dry seasons and shorter wet seasons
Correct answer: more strong and frequency hurricanes, longer dry seasons and shorter wet seasons
more strong and frequency hurricanes, shorter dry seasons and longer wet seasons
Q7.
In the Rocky Mountains, what is currently killing plants?
animals
Correct answer: frost damage
humans
ice damage
Q8.
In Arizona, where is there a cooler climate?
Correct answer: in the North
in the South