B3 - Climate change

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GCSE Biology (B3) Mapa Mental sobre B3 - Climate change, criado por Lily O'Brien em 02-04-2017.
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B3 - Climate change
  1. The consequences of global warming could be very serious
    1. As the sea gets warmer, it expands causing sea level to rise. If it keeps rising it will be bad news for low lying places like the Netherlands,Maldives - they'll be flooded. High temperatures make ice melt. Water 'trapped' on land melts and runs into the sea causing sea levels to rise more.
      1. Global warming has changed weather patterns in many places. It's though many regions will suffer more extreme weather because of this (longer,hotter droughts) Hurricanes form over warmer more than 27C so with warmer water, you'd expect more hurricanes.
        1. The distribution of many wild animal and plant species may change. Some may become more wildly distributed (species that need warmer temp may spread wider as the conditions they need exist over a wider area) Others may become less widely distributed. Biodiversity can be reduced if some species are unable to survive a change in the climate so become extinct. there could be changes in migration patterns( more may migrate further north - these are getting warmer)
    2. To find out how our climate is changing scientists are collecting data about the environment. They use satellites to monitor snow and ice cover and to measure the temperature of the sea surface. The temperature and speed of ocean currents to try and detect any changes. Automatic weather stations are constantly recording atmospheric temperatures
      1. All this data is only useful if it covers a wide enough area and a long enough time scale. Generally observations of a small scale aren't much use or a short period of time. Scientists can make mistakes so you need more than one person's word for it.

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