Geography - Climate Change and Weather Hazards

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The biggest cause of climate change.
Fossil Fuels
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What gas do cows produce.
Methane
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Will this impact the environement, economy or people's social well being? "Wildlife declines as polar bears and seals disappear with the loss of habitat as ice melts.
Environment
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??? is when people respond to a change to limit its' impact or to take advantage of the change.
Adaptation
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What mitigation technique is this describing? "Fossil fuels are burned producing carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is captured from factories and power plants. Carbon dioxide is put under ground in aquifers or in the sea."
Carbon capture
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What is the word this defines? "This is the name for the amount of incoming solar radiation an area recieves"
Insolation
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What is the cell between the Hadley and Polar cells.
Ferrel cell
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What temperature does the sea need to be at for a hurricane to start? (Enter the full word e.g. ninety nine)
Twenty seven
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In Typhoon Haiyan: 400mm of what caused flooding 1km inland.
Rainfall
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Immediate response of Typhoon Haiyan - Celebrities such as the ??? used their status to raise awareness and money to help.
Beckhams
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In the flooding in Cumbria, how many people were trapped in the Trout Hotel? (Enter the full word e.g. ninety nine)
Thirty
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What gas do cows produce.

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Methane

Card 3

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Will this impact the environement, economy or people's social well being? "Wildlife declines as polar bears and seals disappear with the loss of habitat as ice melts.

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Card 4

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??? is when people respond to a change to limit its' impact or to take advantage of the change.

Back

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Card 5

Front

What mitigation technique is this describing? "Fossil fuels are burned producing carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is captured from factories and power plants. Carbon dioxide is put under ground in aquifers or in the sea."

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