Effects that Climate Change has on Water Cycle!

TODAY YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON THE WATER CYCLE.

1. Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change.
2. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:

You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie, on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

If it rains, the water is going will go to the ocean but since we have carbon dioxide the clouds are also absorbing the acid from the carbon dioxide. Which is making the water from the rain acidic. Ocean acidification is referring to the decreasing amount of pH in our oceans, which is making the sea more acidic than it was. About 30 percent of the c02 which is carbon dioxide is now absorbed by the oceans. 

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DEFORESTATION: HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Deforestation is when we chop or cut trres down. If we keep cutting or burning down trees, carbon dioxide will keep increasing because if we have fewer trees. There will be more carbon dioxide because there are fewer trees to absorb carbon dioxide. If we keep cutting trees it will also change the landscape and reflect of earth's surface.

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ICECAP MELT: HOW DOES ICECAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

The effects of climate change in the Arctic include rising air and water temperatures and loss of sea ice. Melting ice also increases warming, this is because they are a darker colour, for example a black car absorbs the heat making the car warmer than normal. A white for example is light and light can reflect light so it wont be that warm. Ocean and land absorb solar radiation and release the heat back to the athmosphere which also causes more global warming. 

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WATER VAPOUR: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO WATER VAPOUR AND EVAPORATION?

A larger amount of water vapour content in the athmosphere is reffering to a process. Warmer air are able to hold more moisture. As the climate warms our air tempature rises which means more evaporation is happening from water sources and land occurs. As a result increasing the athomosphere moisture content. 

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