What are 3 animals that are being affected by melting glaciers?(that were listed?)
Ice worms, Polar Bears, Emperor Penguins, mosquitoes, birds, fish
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What is the main thing we can do to stop the glacial melt?
stop global warming
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How are they made?
They are made from snow falling and then getting buried deeper under more snow. As the snow gets burried deeper it turns into ice, slowly forming a glacier.
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What percentage will the glaciers shrink to of their original size?
20%
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Why is the sea level rising?
The glaciers are melting and bringing to much water into the oceans.
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Why will ice worms be affected?
they spend their whole life living on ice and feeding on glacial algae.
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How can we stop global warming?
reduce greenhouse gases and the burning of fossil fuels.
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What do Glaciers do?
They hold and build up on water in the winter and then slowly let it out in the summer.
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What year are many of the glaciers predicted to be gone by?
2100
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How will the rising sea level effect coastal towns?
It can seep into the rivers and the ground water contaminating the area's drinking and agricultural water.
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What similar affects do the polar bears and ice worms have because of melting glaciers?
They both spend most of their time living on the ice.
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List 3 things a household can do to help reduce global warming and glacial melt.
Plant a tree, compost, recycle, reduce waste, use less water, change to fluorescent light bulbs.
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How do they help the world?
Glaciers provide water for many areas without much rain and without them there would be major problems.
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What have recent studies shown about why they are melting?
They have shown that the burning of fossil fuels have set too much CO2 into the atmosphere and plants cannot absorb it all.
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How much shore line is lost with every inch of sea-level rise?
8 feet due to erosion
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Which animals was noted as suffering from malnutrition and starvation?
Polar Bears
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name 3 things the government can do to help stop melting glaciers
Reduce air pollution caused by factories, improve fuel efficiency of automobiles, and using more alternative energy! :)
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What are glaciers sometimes called and why?
Rivers of ice because they are moving
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What effect does the CO2 in the atmosphere cause?
It causes the greenhouse effect which increases global temperatures causing glaciers to melt and oceans to rise.
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Which country will be drastically effected if the ocean water contaminates their only source of water?
Egypt
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Which mountains are receding, leaving the mosquitoes to travel to places they have not previously been?