Climate Impacts on Human Systems (Mastery Quiz)

Why are the impacts of climate change on human systems geographically uneven?

• Tourism activity

• Localised social factors

• Varying climate variables

• Localised economic factors

Impacts of climate change are (a)   . When the natural systems are affected, humans are directly and indirectly affected as well.

How does climate change directly impact humans?

• Affects food production

• Degrades natural landscapes

• Loss of human lives

• Destruction of properties

Climate change can affect humans indirectly by affecting (a)   ecosystem services including food production.

Climate change can affect humans indirectly by affecting (a)   ecosystem services including disease regulation.

Climate change can affect humans indirectly by altering (a)   ecosystem services including the melting of Arctic ice and degradation of natural landscapes.

A period of excessively hot weather that is abnormal, usually lasting for several days or longer is called a ____ ____.

(a)  

Unplanned and uncontrolled fires that burn in natural areas such as forests or grasslands are called (a)   .

Intense circular storms that originate over warm tropical oceans are called ________ ________.

(a)  

____ ______ are a rise in sea level that occur during tropical cyclones. The strong winds that accompany the tropical cyclones push water into the shore.

(a)