Climate change and the rising of the sea level.pdf
- 1. Erasmus+ Learning, teaching and training ac4vity Germany 17.4. – 21.4.2023 Curse or blessing ? Climate change and the rising of the sea level in northern Europe during the last 10 000 years
- 2. Erasmus+ Learning, teaching and training ac4vity Germany 17.4. – 21.4.2023 Ques4ons/Assignments A 1. Is climate change a natural process or human made? 2. What is the main effect of the climate change of the last 10 000 years? 3. Do we presently live in the period of an Ice Age? 4. What are so-called warm and cold periods of the Ice Age? 5. Referring to the terms above, what is the scien4fically correct name of our present situa4on? 6. Was our planet Earth “normally”/most of the 4mes during the last 7 billion years covered par4ally or totally with ice or not? 7. What results of the mel4ng of the ice shield during the last 10 000 years can be observed in northern Europe? 8. Explain the terms a) tundra, b) moraines, c) glacial valley/ ancient river valley
- 3. Erasmus+ Learning, teaching and training ac4vity Germany 17.4. – 21.4.2023 - 1 - More Ques4ons/Assignments B 1. Parts of northern Germany as well as the Netherlands are already below the present sea level. Right or wrong? 2. Was the loss of land, therefore the change of coastline, caused by the rising sea level or by storm surges? 3. When did the most severe storms take place in the past 1000 years and approximately how many lives were lost in each event? Name at least 5 storm surges in different centuries! 4. Why do the storms today cause less vic4ms than the storm surges in the past, even though today many more people live in coastal area? 5. What is the difference between storms and storm surges in northern Europe? 6. How o`en and when do they primarily happen?
- 4. Erasmus+ Learning, teaching and training ac4vity Germany 17.4. – 21.4.2023 - 2 - More ques4ons/Assignments C Climate change and human ac4vi4es By nature northern Germany (wet triangle) went through a transforma4on from Ice shield and Tundra to a swampy uninhabitable region plus a few scadered hills. What has been done during the last 2000 years to make this area a livable one. To explain, apply the terms: Wurt, Dike, dewatering Explain the term: “Spatenrecht”
- 5. Erasmus+ Learning, teaching and training ac4vity Germany 17.4. – 21.4.2023 - 3 - One more assignment D Explain the posi4ve effect of the climate change of the last 10000 years on the migra4on of birds in the north European hemisphere
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