why them seas be risin'
The process that happens because warmer ocean water physically takes up more space, even if no new water is added.
What is thermal expansion?
This type of flooding can happen during normal high tides, even without a hurricane or major storm.
What is high-tide flooding?
This happens when ocean water pushes into freshwater supplies underground.
What is saltwater intrusion?
This occurs when people are forced to leave their homes because an area becomes unsafe or unlivable.
What is human displacement?
These structures include seawalls, pump stations, raised roads, and storm surge barriers.
What is hard infrastructure?
Two frozen sources that add water to the ocean as they shrink or lose mass over time. (2x points if both answers are provided)
What are melting ice sheets or glaciers?
A street does not need several feet of water to become dangerous or unusable; even smaller rises can disrupt transportation as a result of this.
What is chronic flooding?
These coastal ecosystems can act as natural flood buffers but are threatened when salinity and water levels rise.
What are wetlands (or) mangroves?
This matters when a neighborhood has to relocate, specifically regarding who chooses the new location and who pays for the move.
What is climate justice?
This strategy tries to slow future sea level rise by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions causing warming.
What is mitigation?
The impact that describes how sea level rise is not caused by one single process, but by a combination of ocean warming and land ice loss.
What is multi-cause climate impact?
Sea level rise makes ordinary coastal flooding more common because the _____ of the ocean is higher.
What is a baseline water level?
Why rising seas can wear away dunes, beaches, and barrier islands more quickly.
What is accelerated erosion?
Poorer communities may be protected later or less effectively, even though they often have fewer resources to recover.
What is unequal climate adaptation?
This strategy accepts that some sea level rise is already happening and prepares communities to live with it.
What is adaptation?
The reason for which a small increase in global temperature can still create a large long-term ocean problem. These are also the main ocean patterns that are altered by climate change.
What is thermohaline circulation?
Why sea level rise can affect people even if their homes never directly flood.
What is economic (or) infrastructural disruption?
This is why environmental damage from sea level rise can eventually become a human problem.
What is the loss of natural protection (or) freshwater resources?
The lack of a preexisting refugee category for individuals displaced by climate change.
What is a legal framework gap?
The process of building seawalls and pump stations, but also restoring wetlands and mangroves because engineered defenses alone may not be enough.
What is a hybrid adaptation strategy?
The effect that describes how even if emissions slowed tomorrow, sea level would likely keep rising for some time because oceans and ice sheets respond slowly.
What is climate lag?
Why the real danger of sea level rise is not only one dramatic flood, but the repeated interruption of daily life, roads, property, and services.
What is cumulative disruption?
A wetland protective solution not just about saving nature; but also about reducing flood risk for nearby communities.
A city’s adaptation plan that is unfair because it protects wealthy neighborhoods first while leaving vulnerable communities exposed.
What is inequitable resilience planning?
A city with limited money deciding whether to fund immediate defenses, long-term planning, or support for vulnerable communities first.
What is climate adaptation prioritization?