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Year 7 - Geography

The future of global coasts

Coasts: what shapes life at the coast?

Unit Summary

This unit teaches pupils how physical and human processes shape our coastline. Pupils will also learn about the threats and challenges coastlines face in a warming world.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to explain the risks associated with climate change for coastal communities and describe how countries are taking action to combat them.

Key Notes

  • Climate change is putting millions of people across the world at risk from sea level rise and flooding.
  • Island nations and coastal cities and communities are trying to mitigate the risk with built structures.
  • There are different actions taking place to find solutions and try to prevent further global issues.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • climate change: large-scale and long-term change in the planet's climate, including weather patterns and average temperatures
  • risk: the possibility that something bad or unpleasant, such as an injury, might happen
  • global: something that affects people across the world

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • That rising sea levels only affect a few places like tropical islands, and that cities are not at risk of rising sea levels.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.

Climate change is putting millions of people across the world at risk from sea level rise and flooding. Island nations and coastal cities and communities are trying to mitigate the risk with built structures.

2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'climate change'

large-scale and long-term change in the planet's climate, including weather patterns and average temperatures.

3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.

Mistake: That rising sea levels only affect a few places like tropical islands, and that cities are not at risk of rising sea levels. Correction: Rising sea levels is a concern for all global coastal communities. There is nowhere with a coast that will not be affected by rising sea levels, including major global cities, although some communities are affected more than others.

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