ACTIVITIES BOOK - Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

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Follow-up activity: Have students research the present status of climate change talks.Action: Make your community a ‘Carbon Smart Community’What you will need:Creativity and motivationInstructions: Discuss how you can inspire your community to reduce its carbon footprint. You might need amulti-staged approach such as:1. make people aware of the issue2. get people to change their behaviour3. reward people for changing their behaviour and encourage further changeYou may decide to use drama, music or information sheets to inspire people, or your may decide to engagepeople in an event like a tree planting day or a ‘clean up our climate’ day.Discussion: How you can improve your community’s climate cleverness.Follow-up activity: Why not get your local council on board? Create acommunity garden, hold a council compost day, start a butt-busting programto raise awareness about cigarette butt pollution, or hold a clean up eventsomewhere visible in your community.Bright idea: Create ateam of superheroes(e.g. climate-cool,energy-cool, watercool,recycling-cool andtransport-cool). These superheroscan then present environmentalreminder messages at your parade,in classrooms, or on special schooldays. These reminders mightinclude simple messages about whatpeople can do to be climate cool athome and at school.33Reef Beat 2009 - Climate Change and the Reef
GLOSSARY OF TERMSacid - scientists use something called the pH scaleto measure how acidic or basic a liquid is. Althoughthere may be many types of ions in a solution, pHfocuses on concentrations of hydrogen ions (H+)and hydroxide ions (OH-). The scale goes fromvalues very close to 0 through 14. Distilled water is7 (right in the middle). Acids are found between anumber very close to 0 and 7. Bases are from 7 to14. An example of an acid is lemon juice.acidification - the process of becoming acid orbeing converted into an acid.adaptation - the adjustment of living things toenvironmental conditions. Human adaptation toclimate change includes altering the way we growcrops, build homes, consume energy, and managenatural resources. An animal adaptation might be aparrot fish beak like mouth that helps it to scrapealgae off rocks efficiently.adaptive management - adaptive management(AM), also known as adaptive resourcemanagement (ARM), is a structured, repetitiveprocess of best possible decision making in the faceof uncertainty, with an aim to reducing uncertaintyover time via system monitoring. In this way,decision making simultaneously maximises one ormore resource objectives and, either passively oractively, accrues information needed to improvefuture management. AM is often characterised as"learning by doing."base - scientists use something called the pH scaleto measure how acidic or basic a liquid is. Althoughthere may be many types of ions in a solution, pHfocuses on concentrations of hydrogen ions (H+)and hydroxide ions (OH-). The scale goes fromvalues very close to 0 through 14. Distilled water is7 (right in the middle). Acids are found between anumber very close to 0 and 7. Bases are from 7 to14. An example of a base is laundry detergent.calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) - is a commonsubstance found in rock in all parts of the world, andis the main component of shells of marineorganisms, snails, and eggshells.carbon cycle - the constant movement of carbonthrough living things, rocks, the oceans, and theatmosphere.carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) - is a colourless, odourlessgas that is naturally present in the atmosphere. Thisgas is produced in large quantities by burning plantsand fossil fuels, as well as being present in the airthat all animals exhale.carbon footprint - a carbon footprint is the total setof GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directlyand indirectly by an individual, organisation, event orproduct. An individual, nation or organisation'scarbon footprint is measured by undertaking a GHGemissions assessment. Once the size of a carbonfootprint is known, a strategy can be devised toreduce it.climate - the average long-term weather (commonlyyears) in a particular region.climate models - computer programs that enablescientists to investigate the many factors at work inEarth’s climate system. By manipulating variablessuch as the amount of CO 2 in the atmosphere,scientists try to understand how the climate willrespond.climatologist - a scientist who studies the climate.coral bleaching - coral bleaching occurs when thecoral host expels its zooxanthellae.coral polyp - soft-bodied, invertebrate animals thatform the basis of coral reefs.cyclone - in meteorological terms, a cyclone refersto an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotatingclouds and energy. This is usually characterised byinward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwisein the Northern Hemisphere (a hurricane) andclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere (a cyclone).Large-scale cyclonic circulations are almost alwayscentred on areas of low atmospheric pressure.data - refers to pieces of information or facts usuallycollected as the result of experience, observation orexperiment, or processes within a computer system.They may be numbers, words, or images,particularly as measurements or observations of aset of variables. Data is often viewed as the buildingblocks of knowledge.ecosystem - a natural unit consisting of all plants,animals and micro-organisms (biotic factors) in anarea functioning together with all of the non-livingphysical (abiotic) factors of the environment.ectotherm - an organism that regulates its bodytemperature largely by exchanging heat with itssurroundings. A cold-blooded organism also calleda poikilotherm.El Niño - El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO;commonly referred to as simply El Niño) is a globalocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The Pacific Oceansignatures, El Niño and La Niña are importanttemperature fluctuations in surface waters of thetropical Eastern Pacific Ocean.34Reef Beat 2009 - Climate Change and the Reef
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