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Drip Drop! Small Group Table

Work in your small group to explore the lyrics and the science in the first two columns. Record your thoughts and questions in the third column. Be ready to share with the whole class.

Lyrics What’s the science? What questions do you have now? 1. Climate is warming. The global So hot in the atmosphere average temperature of Earth’s Melting H2O atmosphere warmed 1.1 degrees I’m hot Fahrenheit in the 20th Century. The He’s hot rise in temperature is a global Too hot average. That means that all the Drip Drop (Drop) temperatures from locations Climbing out of control worldwide and through all seasons are averaged together. Scientists project more than double that amount of warming during the 21st Century. 2. In general, glaciers are I was like “Good gracious! disappearing due to warming What’s up with the temperatures. Almost all mountain glaciers?” glaciers around the world are When I went away shrinking. In the northern On my summer vacay hemisphere, the ice sheet on See my Aunt Arctica Greenland is melting. In the Same time each year southern hemisphere, the West But I kind of freaked out Antarctic ice sheet is melting too. When some snow On the other side of Antarctica, the disappeared East Antarctic Ice Sheet is Ice rivers flowing increasing in size because of more Permafrost un-frozen snowfall. Glacial erosion Miles are going There is variation throughout the Dumping and sinking year: glaciers and ice sheets grow Right into the sea in size during the winter when Calving off in huge chunks temperatures are cold and snow is The size of NYC common and then shrink in Ice-scrapers break off summer when temperatures are And turn into bergs warmer. Tons of freshwater run off Only making it worse

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NAME: 3. There are two reasons that sea Sea levels go up level is rising and both are because Salt water slows up climate is warming. First, there is High tides’ll show up more water in the ocean as glacial Coral don’t hold up melt water makes its way to the When the water’s brackish ocean. Second, warming ocean It’s bad for the fish water takes up more space because The ocean’s feverish the water molecules move further I’m not cool with this apart, which also makes sea level The seven seas are rising rise. twice as fast As ever been recorded in Rising sea level is a problem for decades past coastal communities, especially Forecast soaked shores all when the sea level rises along the coast temporarily during storms (called Who knows what’s in store storm surge) and during unusually when the waves encroach? high tide events (like king tides).

Warmer ocean water is harmful to corals and other marine life that require very specific environmental conditions.

During the 20th Century sea level rose 8 inches. The rate of sea level rise is speeding up and scientists predict sea level will rise between 1 and 7 feet during this century, depending on how much climate change occurs.

4. The ice that covers much of the And on another subject, Arctic Ocean around the North Pole Arctic ice is called sea ice and is made of Is Earth’s home-grown frozen seawater. Every winter the natural cooling device amount of ice increases as cold It’s melting too, which temperatures allow more seawater ain’t good news to freeze. Then, during summer, When all that chillin’ some of the sea ice melts. Over the white’s got the blues past several decades, more ice has Sea ice is nice for melted during the summer than reflectivity has formed during the winter. This Bouncing back the sun’s means that there is less ice in the

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NAME: blazing energy Arctic Ocean than there used to be. The albedo is perfect A frozen flat surface Because ice is white, it reflects Rocket ricochet most of the incoming solar energy Bye bye solar rays out to space. The dark ocean X ray, gamma ray surface that is exposed when the Infrared, ultra violet ice melts absorbs solar energy, Caliente CO2 which causes more warming in the Traps and amplifies it Arctic, which melts more ice. This This positive feedback vicious cycle (called a “positive Ain’t so positive feedback”) is responsible for Melted ice turns dark speeding up warming. No longer reflective It heats up hotter Polar bears and other Arctic life are Melting even more affected by the loss of sea ice. The Beware! bears use sea ice platforms when There’s a polar bear they are hunting for fish and seals Knocking on your door in the ocean. 5. The water cycle is speeding up due Evaporate Precipitate to climate change. With warmer Circulate Vapor temperatures, there is more Can’t escape the atmos evaporation of water into the air Where does it go? (turning from a liquid to a gas). Heads back into the hydro More evaporation can cause dry Stop, drop & roll areas to become drier. Long term The higher the temp drier-than-normal conditions are The more the steam called drought, which is a problem Buckets dump from the for farmers, ecosystems, and clouds anyone who relies on water. Torrential stream Stormy weather More evaporation of water into the It’s like a bad dream air can cause more clouds to form. Get it together Those clouds cause intense storms Climate on caffeine (precipitation), which can cause When it rains it pours flooding. And floods the floors The deluge don't seep Looking into the future, scientists Or absorb too deep project that some areas will have a Cause the ground’s dried higher chance of drought and other out areas will be subject to extreme Subterranean drought rainstorms. Plants can’t go without I wanna scream and shout

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NAME: 6. While saving water is a good idea True, the climate’s and works with the rhyme in this changed naturally song, the most important take throughout time away from the video is the But it’s human fingerprints importance of humans reducing at the scene of this crime CO2 emissions. We’re breaking records. We’re getting hotter. Gotta act now. Gotta save our water.

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