LEARNING AREA GEOGRAPHY

LEARNING LEVEL FORM 4

TOPIC WEATHER AND CLIMATE

SUB TOPIC CLIMATE CHANGE

NAME NIGEL MUKURA T

SCHOOL ST DOMINICS HIGH SCHOOL

CLASS 4Y

CANDIDATE NUMBE 3240

CALA TITLE CAUSES, EFFECTS AND MIIGATIONS

CALA TYPE REASEARCH

ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES

1. Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the process

2. Judgment and decision making

SUB ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVES

1. Define climate change

2. Describe causes and effects of climate change
3. Identify ways and adaption and mitigation of climate change

SKILLS

1. Problem solving
2. Critical thinking
3. Data collection, presentation and analysis

CALA DIMENSION / CRITERIA

Learner is assessed on the ability to :

1. Define climate change

2. Describe the causes and effects of climate change
3. Identify ways of adaption and mitigation against climate change
1. Define climate change

 Climate change is a long-term change in the statistical

distribution of weather patterns over periods of time
ranging from decates to millions of years
 It may be change in average weather conditions or the
distribution of events around that average for example
more or fewer extreme weather events

2. Describe causes and effects of climate change

 CAUSES
 Deforestation - because living tress absorb and
store carbon dioxide

 Fossil fuels – such as coal, oil and gas to generate

electricity, run cars and other forms of
transportation
 Increasing intensive agriculture – which emits
greenhouse gasses like methane and nitrous oxide

 Oil drilling – burn off from the oil drilling industry

impacts the carbon dioxide released into the
atmosphere

 Garbage – as trash breaks down in landfills, it

releases methane and nitrous oxide gasses
 Effects
 rising maximum temperatures
 rising minimum temperatures 
 rising sea levels 
 higher ocean temperatures 
 an increase in heavy precipitation (heavy rain
and hail)
 shrinking glaciers
 thawing permafrost

 Floods - A flood is an overflow of water that

submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense
of "flowing water"

 Heat waves- it is an extended period of hot

weather relative to the expected conditions of
the area at that time of year, which may be
accompanied by high temperatures

 Droughts -A drought is an event of prolonged

shortages in the water supply, whether
 atmospheric (below-average precipitation),
surface water or ground water.

3. Ways of adaptations and mitigation of climate

change
Adaptations
 Prepare for longer, more intense fire seasons
 Rise to the challenge of sea level rise
 Ensure disaster and public health plans account
for more severe weather
 Protect farms and the food supply from climate
impacts
 Protect air quality
 Prepare climate retreat
 Prioritize climate justice
 Prepare for managed retreat

Mitigations

 Greater use of renewable energy

 Electrification of industrial processes
 More secure facility location and
infrastructures
 Landscape restoration
 Flexible and diverse cultivation to be prepared
for natural catastrophes
 Manure management
 Carbon sinks