Numbers
Percent of Earths-surface that is water covered.
What is 70-80%?
Name a economic impact.
What is loss of tourism, damage repair, loss of agricultural land, etc.?
Name one main cause of rising sea levels.
What is climate change?
What is land ice in Antarctic melting?
True or false, some locations have already started shrinking as a result of rising sea levels.
What is true?
True or false, at the current rate the impacts of rising sea levels are reversible.
What is true?
Percent of Earths water that is found in the oceans.
What is 90%?
Name a environmental impact.
What is loss of habitats, loss of biodiversity, etc.?
Impact of thermal pollution on sea level.
What is causes a rise in sea level?
Name one U.S state effected by rising sea levels.
What is Florida, New York, etc.?
Define sea walls.
What is a wall made to prevent the sea from entering or eroding an area of land.
Percent of trapped heat absorbed by oceans.
Name a social impact.
What is deaths, water supplies affected, loss of housing, loss of jobs, etc.?
La Ninas effect on sea level.
What is the dropping of sea level?
Explain what's happening in Tuvalu.
What is Tuvalu is slowly sinking due to sea level rising and coastal erosion?
Impact mangroves have rising sea levels.
What is they positively help land from sedimentation?
What is they absorb the impact of coastal storms
What is they can possibly die off if too much water enters?
What is 60-70%?
Name a political impact.
What is the government would be held responsible for taking preventative measures against coastal flooding/climate change?
What is rising sea levels brings environmental impact into the conversation when making laws?
Define Land Water Storage.
What is water that is either removed from land (through groundwater pumping, for example) or impounded on land (through dam building, for example) which can cause a net change in the total water found in the ocean?
City that faced a sea level environmental injustice (mentioned in presentation).
What is Norfolk?
What is Tuvalu?
Connect how planting trees would limit rising sea levels
What is trees absorb more CO2 --> reduces global warming --> less glacier/permafrost melting --> limits rising sea levels
Sea level rise (in cm) since 1880.
21-24 cm
Name one invention that was made to prevent the impact of rising sea levels specifically.
What is flood barriers, saltwater intrusion barriers, aquifer recharges, etc.?
Define Geodetic Method.
What is a method that measures the change in the volume of the glacier using repeat measurements of the glacier surface height from ground or airborne surveys?
Areas in greatest danger because of rising sea levels.
What is U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast, Asia, and islands?
Define hard shoreline maintenance.
What is the use of breakwaters, bulkheads, seawalls, etc.