Climate Impacts on Human Systems (Mastery Quiz)

Why are the impacts of climate change on human systems geographically uneven?

• Tourism activity

• Localised social factors

• Varying climate variables

• Localised economic factors

Impacts of climate change are ______________. When the natural systems are affected, humans are directly and indirectly affected as well.

How does climate change directly impact humans?

• Affects food production

• Degrades natural landscapes

• Loss of human lives

• Destruction of properties

Climate change can affect humans indirectly by affecting ____________ ecosystem services including food production.

Climate change can affect humans indirectly by affecting __________ ecosystem services including disease regulation.

Climate change can affect humans indirectly by altering ________ ecosystem services including the melting of Arctic ice and degradation of natural landscapes.

A period of excessively hot weather that is abnormal, usually lasting for several days or longer is called a ____ ____.

Unplanned and uncontrolled fires that burn in natural areas such as forests or grasslands are called _________.

Intense circular storms that originate over warm tropical oceans are called ________ ________.

____ ______ are a rise in sea level that occur during tropical cyclones. The strong winds that accompany the tropical cyclones push water into the shore.