Year 8: Chapter 5.1: What is climate change?

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Can you guess what is the topic for today's lesson?

Chapter 5: Climate Change
- What is climate change?
- What are the signs of climate change?

Group discussion:
1. Discuss the meaning of climate change.
2. Discuss and answer structured questions
3. Quiz

​Step to Success

1. Write the meaning of climate change.

2. To list down the signs of the climate change.

3. Recall the knowledge learnt

​Lesson Objective

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1. 1. What do you understand about climate change? Please explain at least one sentence. Discuss with your members.

It is the changes in weather patterns that are caused directly or indirectly by human activities.

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​What is climate change?

Chapter 5.2
What are the signs of climate change?

Refer your textbook from page 93-98.
Discuss with your members and answer the following questions.

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2. 2. Write at least 3 signs of climate change?

​There are 8 signs of climate change:

• Higher temperatures

• Less snowpack

• Melting glaciers

• Rising sea levels

• Warming oceans

• Changing snow fall and rain patterns

• Air pollution

• Wilder weather

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​Higher temperatures is a sign of climate change.

​When a place experiences very high temperatures for a few weeks or possibly months, it is called heat wave.

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4. 4. What is snowpack?

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5. 5. Why is snowpack important?

Snowpack is important because it provides water to streams, rivers, lakes and reservoirs; gradually it melts.

As the world gets warmer, many mountain areas have less snowpack than they used to and this affects the amount of drinking water that is available to people who live there.

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​Less snowpack.

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Warmer temperatures causing glaciers to melt.

The faster the glaciers and the giant ice sheets melt, the more water is added to the oceans.

This causes the sea level around the world to rise.

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​Melting glaciers

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6. 6. What happened to the sea levels if there is an increase of rainfall and the melting of glaciers?

The increased rainfall in some areas as well as the melting of glaciers has caused the sea levels to rise.

Rising sea levels.

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7. 7. What caused the sea level to rise up?

​​Warming oceans.
It can kills many kinds of sea life, such as corals and fish.

​Changing snow fall and rain patterns.

As temperatures rise and the air becomes warmer, more moisture also evaporates from land and water into the atmosphere.
More moisture in the air leads to more precipitation, heavy rain and snow fall.
Some places get less precipitation, some become hotter and dryer and some tend to become colder and wetter.

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8. 8. Name two types of air pollution.

​Smog

​Haze

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9. 9. What is the different between smog and haze? At least write one.

​Smog. It is built up from vehicle engines and industrial smoke. It is yellowish or brown in colour.

​Haze. It is built up of fine particles of dust spread through the atmosphere from smoke from forest fires.

​Air Pollution

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10. 10. Write two examples of wilder weather.

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11. Where did the hurricanes and tropical storms get their energy from?

​Tropical storms

​​Hurricanes

​Wilder weather.

​When the ocean gets warmer, hurricanes and other tropical storms grow stronger with faster winds and heavier rains.

Multiple Choice

What is climate change?

• It is the changes in climate patterns that are caused by human activities.

• It is the changes in weather patterns that are caused by directly by human activities.

• It is the changes in weather patterns that are caused directly and indirectly by human activities.

Multiple Select

Which of the following below are the signs of climate change?

• Energy use

• Higher temperatures

• Wilder weather

• Less snowpack

Multiple Choice

What it is called when a region experiences very high temperatures for a few weeks or possibly months?

• Humid

• heat waves

• dry

Drag and Drop

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is the layer of snow and ice on the ground in high mountain ranges and other cold places.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

snowpack

glaciers

Multiple Choice

It is large sheet of snow and ice that are found on land all year long.

• glaciers

• snow

• ice

Multiple Choice

What caused the volume of water in the ocean to expand?

• warming ocean

• increased rainfall and melting of glaciers.

• higher temperatures

Multiple Choice

What kinds of sea life affected when water in the ocean being warmer?

• Animals and plants

• Fishes and corals

• Reptiles and Birds

Multiple Choice

Hot places tend to be hotter and dryer, and cold places tend to become colder and wetter.

Which of the following below is the correct statement above?

• Warming oceans

• Air pollution

• Changing snow fall and rain patterns

Multiple Choice

How does smog and haze look like in colour?

• smog- yellowish or brown.

  Haze- Greyish

• smog- greyish

  Haze- Yellowish or brown

• smog- white

  Haze- black

Multiple Choice

Where did hurricanes and tropical storms get their energy from?

• From strong wind

• From warm ocean water

• From higher temperatures

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Self-reflection

Do you understand?

Which part do you think it's difficult?