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Thursday, 8 August 2019

Hurumanu - Climate change

Aim: To look at the causes of climate change and how to prevent it.


As you watch the video answer these questions:

What is our greatest threat in thousands of years? Climate Change

How do we see climate change affecting the globe?
  1.   Carbon dioxide 
  2.   Water rise
  3.   Lava flow
  4.   Heat


What is needed to change history?
start building more electric cars.

Is climate change a man made disaster?
No because the heat is causing huge fires and destroying the planet.

Dramatic action must be made in the next 10 years to change it? 

Why is our climate changing?
Antarctica is melting and rising the sea level and makes country smaller and smaller.

What is causing the warming trend of the climate?
fossil fuels burning and is releasing too much of carbon dioxide in to the earth and making the earth too hot.

What is the main problem? That the sea level is rising and the heat is getting hotter.

What are examples of these? Fires, Sea rising, Carbon dioxide.

Burning fossil fuels releases what gas? nitrogen, carbon, dioxide.

How much hotter now is our world?
0.8 degrees Celsius 

What do we call this global warming?
climate change

How is this affecting creatures / animals like bats?
temperature of the lakes.

What percentage of species are near extinction?
99.9%

How could this effect the world ecosystems?
Rain Forrests and desserts will make the animals die and rise the temperature rise even more too how it was.


What global change was seen and recording breaking last year?
increased heat caused by fires.

How is climate change affecting our weather systems?
1. fires
2. carbon dioxide

What is another effect of climate change?
see level rises, heat level rises, more storms 

What will happen if the ice melts in Antarctica and the Arctic?
The earth can be just water and we will have to live on another planet.

How does this affect people?
They will lose land and a way to make a living.

What other things affect oceans change?
plastic pollution

What does too much heat do to the coral?
kills the bacteria and it dies

Why did some industries not want to stop burning fossil fuels?
It helps them make lots of money by selling energy

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Investigation

You can decide on how you would like to do this investigation. Your presentation could be on the blog, slides, or Powerpoint.

Write a definition, upload an image and list where these fossil fuels are mined.

  1. Coal
  2. Oil
  3. Natural Gas

Write a paragraph of 5 sentence,upload an image and name 2 countries that use this type of renewable energy.


  1. Solar
  2. Wind
  3. Waves
  4. Hydro

Write a 5 sentence reflection about what you have learnt about Climate Change and how it is going to affect us in the future.  





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