Year 7 - Geography
Actions to tackle climate change
Weather and climate: how do they vary?
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that help explain our weather and climate. Pupils will use fieldwork to investigate weather in their local area. Pupils will also learn about how and why our climate is changing.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to describe how we can mitigate against and adapt to climate change.
Key Notes
- There are a range of things we can do to measure our impact on the planet.
- Living more sustainably can help tackle climate change.
- We can mitigate against climate change by: planting trees, international agreements, and using alternative energy.
- We can adapt to climate change by: adapting agriculture, considering water supply, and protecting the land from erosion.
Vocabulary To Learn
- carbon footprint: A number representing the total number of carbon dioxide or other greenhouses gases that an individual, product, person, or country produces.
- adaptation: Making changes to suit different conditions.
- sustainable: If something is sustainable it is able to continue over a long time.
- mitigation: Actions to reduce or prevent something.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- It's fine to adapt or mitigate, we don't need to do both.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
There are a range of things we can do to measure our impact on the planet. Living more sustainably can help tackle climate change.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'carbon footprint'
A number representing the total number of carbon dioxide or other greenhouses gases that an individual, product, person, or country produces.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: It's fine to adapt or mitigate, we don't need to do both. Correction: Adaptation helps us cope with climate change, but it doesn't stop the problem from getting worse. Mitigation helps slow down climate change. The best approach is to use both mitigation and adaptation.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Anticyclones Study Guide
- Causes of climate change Study Guide
- Depressions Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating microclimate data Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Planning and collecting microclimate data Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Presenting microclimate data Study Guide
- Impacts of climate change on the UK Study Guide
- Past climate change Study Guide
- The UK's climate Study Guide
- Types of rainfall Study Guide
- Weather and climate Study Guide
- Weather and climate forecasting Study Guide
- World climate zones Study Guide
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