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Melting Ice and Rising Sea Levels
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The Great Barrier Reef
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Amazon Rainforests
Norway
Greenland Ice Sheet
Mauna Loa Observatory
Click on Greenland.
Welcome to Greenland!
Your challenge is to learn how rising air and ocean temperatures effect the Greenland Ice Sheet and sea levels across the world.
Click on the glacier.
Almost 80% of Greenland is covered by an ice sheet (one gigantic glacier).
An INCREDIBLE amount of frozen water!
Click on Greenland in the image of Earth.
Almost 80% of Greenland is covered by a giant sheet of ice.
As more CO2 and other greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere, the Earth gets warmer. Evidence that the Earth is warming can clearly be seen in Greenland... WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF ICE!
What happens to solid water (ice) when it warms up?
It disappears.
It turns from solid to liquid. In other words, it melts.
Almost 80% of Greenland is covered by a giant sheet of ice.
That's right, ice melts when it warms up.
The glaciers that make up the Greenland Ice Sheet are melting faster than they have melted in the past 12,000 years.
image credit
Greenland in 2013
Greenland in early 1900s
image credit
Click on the image that shows a river where ice used to be.
Welcome to the Greenland!
Scientists have realized that not only are warmer air temperatures melting the glaciers, but warmer salt water is also causing the giant chunks of ice to break off at a high rate.
Click on the glacier to learn more about how glaciers melt.
Welcome to the Greenland!
melt
Answer the questions throughout this video from NASA. The code word you need to move on is at the end of the video.
Enter the code word provided at the end of the video.
lowercase letters only
Continue
As a result of the warming atmosphere and oceans, Greenland’s ice is melting rapidly, and the melting rate is accelerating.
Where does the melted ice go?
The End Fountain
Into the Ocean
To Space
Yes, the melted ice from Greenland's Ice Sheet and other glaciers around the world goes into the oceans and causes their levels to increase.
Sea Level Variations Since 1993
Credit: Climate.nasa.gov
Since 1993, Earth's sea levels have increased by about __________.
50 millimeters (or 5 cm)
100 millimeters (or 10 cm)
1000 millimeters (or 100 cm)
As the world's ice sheets and glaciers melt, the sea level _________.
Click on Greenland on the Image of Earth
100 millimeters (10 cm- about the height of a pencil), may not seem like a big increase in sea level.
But, it's A LOT of extra water.
Click on the water.
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
As a result of the higher sea levels, Storm surges are more common and more extreme.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
high tide
Just a small increase in sea levels causes an increase in floods that happens due to normal high tides.
High Tide
High Tide
Before increase in sea levels
After 10 cm increase in sea levels
high tide
high tide
Click on diagram that shows tidal flooding.
Tidal flooding has doubled in the United States in the last 30 years.
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
As a result of the higher sea levels, Storm surges are more common and more extreme.
Higher sea levels more tidal floods, which are floods that happens due to normal high tides.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
Tidal flooding has doubled in the United States in the last 30 years.
Click on street that is flooded due to tidal flooding.
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
Another result of the higher sea levels, is that storm surges are more common and more extreme.
Continue
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
Storm surges are caused by wind and pressure changes during hurricanes and other storms.
high winds
storm surge
normal high tide
Click on the arrow in the diagram that represents the storm surge water level.
Click on the line in the diagram that represents the storm surge water level .
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
With increased sea levels, the storm surges reach much farther onto land.
After 10 cm increase in sea levels
Before increase in sea levels
high winds
high winds
storm surge
storm surge
normal high tide
normal high tide
Click on the arrow in the diagram that represents the storm surge water level after the increase in sea levels.
Click on the line in the diagram that represents the storm surge water level after the increase in sea levels.
Storm surges are more common and more extreme.
Rising sea levels increases coastal floods, which causes incredible damage to ecosystems and properties.
Continue
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
Tidal flooding has doubled in the United States in the last 30 years.
Drag each image so it is above the correct caption. Once all images are correctly placed, a message will appear.
Great Work! Click here.
Sea Levels (mm)
The extra CO2 traps heat that would otherwise escape into space.
As Earth warms up, glaciers and ice sheets melt faster.
Humans release a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Water from melted glaciers and ice sheets cause sea levels to rise.
Higher sea levels have caused tidal flooding to double in the US over the last 30 years.
Higher sea levels cause storm surges to be frequent and more extreme.
The Mauna Loa Weather Observatory
You successfully completed the challenge! Maybe one day you'll be a scientist that helps us understand glaciers and sea levels.
photo credit: NOAA
photo credit: NOAA
This feature is disabled in the teacher presentation.
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NOAA began measurements in 1974, and the two research institutions have made complementary, independent observations ever since.
https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/ocean-acidification
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This Virtual Science Teachers interactive is a work in progress. Feel free to use it, but be sure to come back later when it is complete too! Suzanne
https://view.genial.ly/6274ac05894dc800183143ad
Melting Ice and Rising Sea Levels
Presentation Version
Select here for access to student version from Virtual Science Teachers website.
Begin
This interactive is brought to you by Virtual Science Teachers. Copyright Virtual Science Teachers 2022
The Great Barrier Reef
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Amazon Rainforests
Norway
Greenland Ice Sheet
Mauna Loa Observatory
Click on Greenland.
Welcome to Greenland!
Your challenge is to learn how rising air and ocean temperatures effect the Greenland Ice Sheet and sea levels across the world.
Click on the glacier.
Almost 80% of Greenland is covered by an ice sheet (one gigantic glacier).
An INCREDIBLE amount of frozen water!
Click on Greenland in the image of Earth.
Almost 80% of Greenland is covered by a giant sheet of ice.
As more CO2 and other greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere, the Earth gets warmer. Evidence that the Earth is warming can clearly be seen in Greenland... WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF ICE!
What happens to solid water (ice) when it warms up?
It disappears.
It turns from solid to liquid. In other words, it melts.
Almost 80% of Greenland is covered by a giant sheet of ice.
That's right, ice melts when it warms up.
The glaciers that make up the Greenland Ice Sheet are melting faster than they have melted in the past 12,000 years.
image credit
Greenland in 2013
Greenland in early 1900s
image credit
Click on the image that shows a river where ice used to be.
Welcome to the Greenland!
Scientists have realized that not only are warmer air temperatures melting the glaciers, but warmer salt water is also causing the giant chunks of ice to break off at a high rate.
Click on the glacier to learn more about how glaciers melt.
Welcome to the Greenland!
melt
Answer the questions throughout this video from NASA. The code word you need to move on is at the end of the video.
Enter the code word provided at the end of the video.
lowercase letters only
Continue
As a result of the warming atmosphere and oceans, Greenland’s ice is melting rapidly, and the melting rate is accelerating.
Where does the melted ice go?
The End Fountain
Into the Ocean
To Space
Yes, the melted ice from Greenland's Ice Sheet and other glaciers around the world goes into the oceans and causes their levels to increase.
Sea Level Variations Since 1993
Credit: Climate.nasa.gov
Since 1993, Earth's sea levels have increased by about __________.
50 millimeters (or 5 cm)
100 millimeters (or 10 cm)
1000 millimeters (or 100 cm)
As the world's ice sheets and glaciers melt, the sea level _________.
Click on Greenland on the Image of Earth
100 millimeters (10 cm- about the height of a pencil), may not seem like a big increase in sea level.
But, it's A LOT of extra water.
Click on the water.
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
As a result of the higher sea levels, Storm surges are more common and more extreme.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
high tide
Just a small increase in sea levels causes an increase in floods that happens due to normal high tides.
High Tide
High Tide
Before increase in sea levels
After 10 cm increase in sea levels
high tide
high tide
Click on diagram that shows tidal flooding.
Tidal flooding has doubled in the United States in the last 30 years.
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
As a result of the higher sea levels, Storm surges are more common and more extreme.
Higher sea levels more tidal floods, which are floods that happens due to normal high tides.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
Tidal flooding has doubled in the United States in the last 30 years.
Click on street that is flooded due to tidal flooding.
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
Another result of the higher sea levels, is that storm surges are more common and more extreme.
Continue
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
Storm surges are caused by wind and pressure changes during hurricanes and other storms.
high winds
storm surge
normal high tide
Click on the arrow in the diagram that represents the storm surge water level.
Click on the line in the diagram that represents the storm surge water level .
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
In addition to amplifying storm surge because the water starts at a higher level, sea level rise increases high-tide flooding, which has doubled in the United States over the past 30 years and is expected to rapidly worsen in the coming decades.
With increased sea levels, the storm surges reach much farther onto land.
After 10 cm increase in sea levels
Before increase in sea levels
high winds
high winds
storm surge
storm surge
normal high tide
normal high tide
Click on the arrow in the diagram that represents the storm surge water level after the increase in sea levels.
Click on the line in the diagram that represents the storm surge water level after the increase in sea levels.
Storm surges are more common and more extreme.
Rising sea levels increases coastal floods, which causes incredible damage to ecosystems and properties.
Continue
Flooding around the world has increased dramatically as a result of the higher sea levels.
Tidal flooding has doubled in the United States in the last 30 years.
Drag each image so it is above the correct caption. Once all images are correctly placed, a message will appear.
Great Work! Click here.
Sea Levels (mm)
The extra CO2 traps heat that would otherwise escape into space.
As Earth warms up, glaciers and ice sheets melt faster.
Humans release a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Water from melted glaciers and ice sheets cause sea levels to rise.
Higher sea levels have caused tidal flooding to double in the US over the last 30 years.
Higher sea levels cause storm surges to be frequent and more extreme.
The Mauna Loa Weather Observatory
You successfully completed the challenge! Maybe one day you'll be a scientist that helps us understand glaciers and sea levels.
photo credit: NOAA
photo credit: NOAA
This feature is disabled in the teacher presentation.
This interactive is brought to you by Virtual Science Teachers. Copyright Virtual Science Teachers 2022
NOAA began measurements in 1974, and the two research institutions have made complementary, independent observations ever since.
https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/ocean-acidification
Continue