Starter quiz
- What is the main difference between climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation?
- 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.
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- Which of the following is an example of climate change adaptation?
- Reducing carbon emissions from factories
- Planting more trees to absorb CO2
- Building flood barriers in flood-prone areas ✓
- Implementing carbon taxes
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- How is climate change affecting agriculture?
- Altering crop growing seasons ✓
- Creating new plant diseases
- Affecting yields (how successful a crop is) due to extreme weather ✓
- Decreasing the use of pesticides
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- How can irrigation help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change, such as droughts?
- By increasing reliance on rainwater for crops
- 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
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- What is desalination and how can it be used to address water scarcity caused by climate change?
- 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
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- Which of the following is an example of a coastal defence strategy to protect against rising sea levels?
- Installing wind turbines offshore
- 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
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Exit quiz
- Match the keywords with their definitions.
- irrigation⇔a method of supplying water to crops to help them grow ✓
- desalination⇔the process of removing salt from seawater ✓
- coastal defences⇔structures built to protect the land from the sea ✓
- Strategies to reduce or prevent the emission of greenhouse gases are known as ______ strategies.
- 'mitigation' ✓
- What are the adaptations to sea level rise?
- Coastal defences ✓
- Elevated buildings ✓
- Taxing greenhouse gas emissions
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- ______ forests are a natural flood management strategy.
- 'Mangrove' ✓
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Key learning points
- Managing climate change can involve adaptation strategies.
- Adaptation strategies include change in agricultural systems and managing water supply.
- Adaptation involves reducing risk from rising sea levels.
Common misconception
All adaptation strategies are expensive and complex.
Some adaptation strategies are cost-effective and simple, such as rainwater harvesting and crop rotation.
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
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