ae.07 Climate change and the European Alps

Content

• Statement of inquiry
  • Scientific and technical innovators need to understand how power affects the processes that occur within systems.
• Factual questions [Remembering facts and topics]
  • What are the impacts of climate change upon alpine glaciers focused Switzerland.
• Aims of this lesson
  • To develop your knowledge and understanding of climate change and its impact upon glacial systems in Switzerland.

Base knowledge and understanding

Context

Note making frame

Resources

Command terms

Monthly global mean temperature 1851 to 2020

Figure 1 [Questions 1 + 2]

Temperature-deviations-from-the-1961-1990-mean-in-Switzerland

[Source]

Figure 2 [Questions 2 +4]

Figure 3 [Questions 5 + 6]

swissinfo.ch - How climate change affects Switzerland [6 August 2019]

Figure 4 and 5 [Question 7]

Figure 6 [Question 8 + 9]

Figure 7 [Question 9]

Figure 8 [Question 9]

Figure 9 [Question 10]

SwissGlacier.org - Before/after comparison photo of Great Aletsch Glacier (Swiss Alps)

Figure 10 [Question 11]

SwissGlacier.org - Before/after comparison photo of Rhone glacier (Valais, Swiss Alps)

Question 12

swissinfo.ch - Glaciers and the changing landscape in the Alps [26 August 2019]

Extension task