Our Relationship with Glaciers

 What is a glacier?

 How do glaciers affect the land?

 What is glacial ablation?

 Use the internet to a photograph of an alpine glacier and put the image below:

1. Copy and paste the following link into a web browser (or CTRL + Click)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85TQHzS88L4 (Carbon Crisis in 90 Sec.)

After watching the short video, answer the following question using complete sentences.

Why will heating your home with wood not increase natural global warming, but heating your home using oil, gas or oil will increase global warming?

2. Copy and paste the following link (or CTRL + Click)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEuEqgdJXHg

 Name two ways sea levels are rising as a result of global warming  If all the ice melted how much would sea levels rise?

3. Copy and paste the following link (or CTRL + Click)

http://flood.firetree.net/

Set the Sea level rise to zero.

 Pan the map of England so London is in the middle of your screen.

 Click three times on the button at the bottom right of the screen

 Now change the Sea level rise to 60 metres and describe what would happen to the coast of Nova Scotia if the sea level increased by 60 metres.

 Click the Start button on the bottom left of your screen and type “snip”.

 Click on

 In the snip tool click on new

 Draw a box to highlight London and the surrounding area

 Copy and paste the “snipped box” into this document

4. Use the internet to find one way humans use glaciers. Write your answer here and include an image that shows this: The Human-Environment Interrelationships of Glaciation

Assignment

You are going to make a PowerPoint Presentation. Your finished PowerPoint will have 7 slides.

1. Slide # 1. Find a photograph of a glacier in Canada.

2. Slide # 2. Find an actual example of a human activity in Canada which is causing glaciers in Canada to melt very quickly (think of activities which cause global warming).

3. Slide # 3. Use the http://flood.firetree.net/ website to find one Canadian city which would be affected if all the glaciers in the world melted. Use the same steps you followed to show how much London, England would be flooded. Copy and paste the snip image into the slide

4. Choose one landform from the list below and then:

A Fjord A U-Shaped Valley A Moraine Lake Ontario

 Slide # 4. Find a picture of an example of this landform in Canada  Slide # 5. Describe how glaciers make this landform  Slide # 6 Find a picture that shows Canadians using this landform, and Slide # 7 describe the activity that is being shown in the picture.