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Managing climate change – adaptation

I can understand how climate change can be managed through adaptation strategies.

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Managing climate change – adaptation

I can understand how climate change can be managed through adaptation strategies.

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Key learning points

  1. Managing climate change can involve adaptation strategies.
  2. Adaptation strategies include change in agricultural systems and managing water supply.
  3. Adaptation involves reducing risk from rising sea levels.

Keywords

  • Irrigation - a method of supplying water to crops to help them grow

  • Desalination - the process of removing salt from seawater to make it suitable for drinking and irrigation

  • Coastal defences - structures built to protect land from the sea, e.g. sea walls

Common misconception

All adaptation strategies are expensive and complex.

Some adaptation strategies are cost-effective and simple, such as rainwater harvesting and crop rotation.


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6 Questions

Q1.
What is the main difference between climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation?
Correct answer: Mitigation is reducing greenhouse gases, adaptation is adjusting to the impacts.
Mitigation focuses infrastructure, while adaptation focuses on education.
Mitigation is a short-term response, while adaptation is long-term.
Mitigation reduces the effects of global warming, while adaptation prevents it.
Q2.
Which of the following is an example of climate change adaptation?
Reducing carbon emissions from factories
Planting more trees to absorb CO2
Correct answer: Building flood barriers in flood-prone areas
Implementing carbon taxes
Q3.
How is climate change affecting agriculture?
Correct answer: Altering crop growing seasons
Creating new plant diseases
Correct answer: Affecting yields (how successful a crop is) due to extreme weather
Decreasing the use of pesticides
Q4.
How can irrigation help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change, such as droughts?
By increasing reliance on rainwater for crops
Correct answer: By providing a controlled supply of water to crops during dry periods
By reducing the need for machinery in farming
By preventing soil erosion completely
Q5.
What is desalination and how can it be used to address water scarcity caused by climate change?
Correct answer: The process of converting saltwater into freshwater for drinking and irrigation
The process of extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
The practice of increasing rainfall in dry areas
The removal of harmful chemicals from freshwater sources
Q6.
Which of the following is an example of a coastal defence strategy to protect against rising sea levels?
Installing wind turbines offshore
Correct answer: Building sea walls or barriers along an area of the coast
Relocating all people living in coastal areas
Reducing the number of ships in coastal waters

4 Questions

Q1.
Match the keywords with their definitions.
Correct Answer:irrigation,a method of supplying water to crops to help them grow
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a method of supplying water to crops to help them grow

Correct Answer:desalination,the process of removing salt from seawater
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the process of removing salt from seawater

Correct Answer:coastal defences,structures built to protect the land from the sea
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structures built to protect the land from the sea

Q2.
Strategies to reduce or prevent the emission of greenhouse gases are known as strategies.
Correct Answer: mitigation
Q3.
What are the adaptations to sea level rise?
Correct answer: Coastal defences
Correct answer: Elevated buildings
Taxing greenhouse gas emissions
Q4.
forests are a natural flood management strategy.
Correct Answer: Mangrove

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