Royal Mail Climate Change Challenge Pack: UNIT 1

Station Information Questions

Station 1: Causes
• What are the main greenhouse gases (GHGs)?
• How do GHGs affect global temperature?
• How has human activity increased the amount
of CO2 in the atmosphere?
Station 5: Effects on vegetation
and animals
• How may forests be affected by global warming?
• Why might animals/birds migrate to other regions?
• What could change grasslands into deserts?

• Which countries emit most CO2 now and which

are likely to emit a lot more in the future?
Station 6: Effects on weather
• Why do some scientists predict the weather will
Station 2: Effects on ice caps become more extreme?

• What evidence is there that the ice caps • Why might warmer temperatures not be so good
are melting? for Britain?

• How do GHGs affect the rate at which ice • How could changes in the Gulf Stream affect
caps melt? the UK?

• What are some of the likely effects of ice cap

melting on the oceans and atmosphere?
Station 7: Effects on health
• How might global warming lead to new health
Station 3: Effects on sea level problems for the UK?

• What evidence is there that sea level is rising? • How might sunnier days lead to ill health?

• Why is sea level likely to rise in the future? • Why will warmer winters in the UK possibly lead
to more deaths at that time of year?
• Who is likely to be affected by rising sea levels?

Station 4: Effects on water supply

• Which areas are likely to experience reduced
amounts of rainfall as a result of global warming?

• Why might the areas predicted to receive more

rainfall not benefit as much as they could expect?

• Why is demand for water likely to increase in

the near future?