Geography A-Level
Climate change
What Climate change means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Drives rapid warming, particularly on the western Peninsula, causing ice shelf disintegration, altering penguin habitats, and increasing ocean acidification.
Long-term trends rather than individual, isolated storms, which increase the risk of coastal flooding and accelerate coastal erosion.
Alters temperature and precipitation regimes, disrupting established relationships between climate and human activities and numbers.
Natural climate variability, including prolonged droughts, that combines with human impacts to drive desertification.
Topics that use Climate change
- Antarctica as a global common (AQA A-Level)
- Coastal landscape development (AQA A-Level)
- Desertification (AQA A-Level)
- Environment and population (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Environmental vulnerability
- Agricultural sustainability
- Antarctic Convergence
- Coastal deposition
- Coastlines of emergence
- Desertification
- Environmental advocacy
- Environmental degradation
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