Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography:
Do Glaciers
Affect Us?
- Bringing in
tourists
- There are
no glaciers
in the UK
now but
they left
stunning
scenery
behind & it
attracts
tourists.
- Around 16
million
people visit
the Lake
District a
year, &
spend
almost
£1billion.
- Presenting a
challenge
- many
people
dream of
climbing
Mount
Everest. It's a
pyramidal
peak.
- Supporting
life
- people
depended
on glaciers
for survival.
- The great
River Indus
runs down
through
Pakistan. Up
to half of its
water is
meltwater
from
glaciers in
Himalayas.
Farmers use
river water
for their
crops.
- Some
examples of
rivers fed by
glaciers:
Ganges in
India & the
Yangtze in
China
- In need of
protection
- Antarctica
has 90%of
Earth's ice.
The land
below may
be rich in
mineral
resources.
People
might like to
mine it.
- Nobody
owns
Antarctica.
But 7
countries
claimed
slices in it:
the UK,
France,
Norway,
New
Zealand,
Australia,
Chile &
Argentina.
- one day
these
claims may
cause
conflict. But
for now,
mining is
banned by
the
Antarctic
Treaty. It
protects
Antarctica
as a place of
peace &
scientific
research.
- Melting!
- Scientists
found out
that the ice
sheets are
melting it's
getting
thinner.The
trouble is
the more
they melt
the higher
the water
level is.
Many
coastal
places may
flood.
- Scientists
agree that
we humans
are the main
cause of
this. Mainly
because of
all the fossil
fuels that we
burn.