What is happening in these pictures?

This is a section of shoreline at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina in the USA, pictured in 1999 and 2004. Rising sea levels are expected to speed up coastal erosion.

Argentina's Upsala Glacier was once the biggest in South America, but it is now disappearing at a rate of 200 metres per year.

The ‘Natural Resources Defence Council’ lists 9 effects of Climate Change.

They are working to safeguard the earth, its people plants and animals.

1. Intense rainstorms.2. Drought and wildfire.3. More powerful and dangerous cyclones.4. Deadly heat waves.5. Warmer temperatures.6. Increased spread of diseases e.g. Malaria.7. Ecosystem shift and species die off.8. Melting glaciers.9. Sea level rise.

Diamond 9MOST

Important

LEAST Important

On the worksheet you will be asked to rank these effects in what you consider to be order of importance.

The most important goes at the top, the next 2 below......down to the least important at the bottom.

In the middle there are 3 on the same row so these should all be of similar (middling) importance.

Which effects are the biggest threat to me?

Which effects are the biggest threat to human kind?