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
- Explain what climate change is and how the climate is changing
- Examine how climate change is creating climate refugees
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7 Questions
Q1.
What is a refugee?
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
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.
Q4.
From this list of countries, which country do migrants from Syria not pass through to get to Europe?
Egypt
Italy
Jordan
Q5.
Why are refugees fleeing Syria?
because of a world war
Q6.
Is fleeing Syria to move to the United Kingdom an example of a national or international migration?
national migration
Q7.
Is fleeing Syria to move to the United Kingdom an example of a voluntary or forced migration?
voluntary migration
8 Questions
Q1.
What is climate?
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
Q3.
What is the climate like in the Mountainous West?
cold
dry
freezing
wet
Q4.
What extreme weather affects the Caribbean?
sandstorms
snowstorms
tornadoes
Q5.
What does climate change lead to?
consistent and extreme weather
consistent and predictable weather
predictable weather
unpredictable and consistent 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
more strong and frequency hurricanes, shorter dry seasons and longer wet seasons
Q7.
In the Rocky Mountains, what is currently killing plants?
animals
humans
ice damage
Q8.
In Arizona, where is there a cooler climate?
in the South