Climate Change: Winners and Losers

Lesson 3: Melting Polar Ice


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Use the list of words below to summarize the lesson on Earth's climate history. You will need to use some words more than once:
absorbed, Arctic Sea, coastal areas, Equator, glacier/glaciers, greenhouse effect, Greenland, heat, higher, ice caps, lower, North Pole, reflects, South Pole, warmer


1) As the Earth gets warmer, temperatures at the ____________________  and ____________________  will increase more than temperatures at the ____________________ . (Page 1)

2) The ____________________ traps heat and warms a planet, and it also distributes the ____________________ more evenly over the planet. (Page 1)

3) As Earth's albedo gets lower, more of the Sun's energy is ____________________ at the surface and the planet gets ____________________. (Page 2)

4) Polar ice has a ____________________ albedo than the water or rock under it, so it ____________________ away more of the Sun's energy. (Page 2)

5) As glaciers and ice caps melt, the albedo gets ____________________ and the Earth gets ____________________. (Page 2)

6) In the northern polar region, melting ice covering the ____________________ will not affect sea levels as much as the ____________________ covering most of ____________________ would if it melted. This is because the ice covering the ____________________ is already sitting in water. (Page 3)

7) Over 600 million people live in ____________________ within 10 meters of sea level. (Page 3)

8) If all the ____________________ and ____________________ in the world melted, sea levels around the world would rise by about 70 meters. (Page 3)





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Last Updated: January 22, 2022
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