Changing Climate

Which of the SPARK questions below could you find out more about? Use these questions to help you focus your research and find information.

What is the difference between weather and climate?

What is a climate zone?

What is a weather event?

How does climate affect aspects of human activities connected to agriculture?

What evidence is there to show that climate is changing?

How do climate and weather events influence the practices that farmers use?

THINK ABOUT the ways that weather and climate affect your daily life, including the foods that are available to you. Consider where these foods are grown and made. Discuss the types of human activities that are involved in growing crops and raising animals, or livestock, for food. Predict the effect of weather events and a changing climate on the practices that farmers use to grow and raise healthy crops and livestock.