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Heat Waves and Droughts:

  • Water shortage.
  • More deserts are formed.
  • Extreme heat can kill humans.
  • Crops can't grow{food shortages}.

More Violent Storms:

  • Flooding.
  • Homelessness.
  • Destruction of buildings.

Warming Oceans:

  • Bleaching of coral reefs.
  • Stronger storms.
  • Increase in bacteria.
  • Problems with food chains.
  • Higher sea levels.

Rising Sea Levels:

  • Flooding.
  • Homelessness.
  • Disease carried in dirty flood water.
  • Destruction of habitats and buildings.

Melting of Polar Ice Caps:

  • Less ice to reflect the sun so oceans heat up.
  • Rising of sea levels{habitats destroyed}.
  • Disrupt the food chains.
  • Flooding.

Changing Habitats:

  • Food chains disrupted.
  • More competition between organisms for new habitats.
  • Biodiversity would be threatened.
  • Some organisms cannot adapt to new surroundings.
  • Plants and animals die and eventually become extinct.

Ocean Acidification:

  • Carbon dioxide dissolves in the water to form carbonic acid.
  • Some organisms{fish} cannot reproduce.
  • Some marine organisms cannot make new shells in acidic conditions.