Who is a Climate Refugee - Check for Understanding

Which of the following is NOT a cause of global warming?

• Burning Fossil Fuels

• Cutting Down Trees (Deforestation)

• Rising Sea Levels

True or False: Climate change is caused by both natural and human activities.

• True

• False

The transformation from farmland to desert is called ___.

• Farmification

• Desert Making

• Desertification

• Drought

Which of the following is NOT an effect of global warming?

• Volcanoes

• Rising Sea Levels

• Drought

• Floods

What causes someone to be a political refugee? Check all that apply.

• War

• Religious Persecution

• Political Persecution

• Other Conflicts

True or False: Natural disasters like tornadoes and tsunamis are what cause some people to become environmental refugees.

• True

• False

Bangladesh's Bhola Island became half submerged in water, leaving 500,000 people homeless. Is this a cause or effect of climate change?

• Cause

• Effect

• Neither

Rising Sea Levels are a cause of ___.

• Farmers and merchants from the Gobi desert moving to more urban cities in China.

• Desertification

• The Maldive's government preparing an emergency evacuation plan for flooding.

• Somalian farmers not being able to practice subsistence farming.

True or False: Environmental Refugees are protected by international law and will not be sent back to their homeland until it is safe.

• True

• False

Check all of the effects of becoming a climate refugee.

• Having to learn a new langauge

• Adjusting to new laws

• Becoming wealthy

• Adapting to a new culture