2.2.1 Climate change and the hydrosphere and atmosphere

Content

• Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
  • The effects of global climate change on places, societies and environmental systems
• Geographic knowledge and understanding
  • Climate change and the hydrosphere, atmosphere, including:
    • water stored in ice and oceans, and changing sea levels
    • carbon stored in ice, oceans and the biosphere
• Case study or detailed examples
  • Neither required by the syllabus
• Aims of this lesson
  • To have knowledge of what the hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere are.
  • To understand how climate change impacts the stores of water in our oceans.
  • To understand how climate change impacts the stores of water in our ice.
  • To have knowledge of where carbon is stored and how that is changing.

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