FINAL TEST SOLUTION Juan Camilo Vélez Taborda Reading Course - Cohorte 22 UDEM 2020 Field of stud: Environment Length of the text: one page Reading Material: Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment51846468?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c4y3wxdx24nt/our-planetmatters&link_location=live-reporting-story 1. Terminological dragging: keywords of the text, synonyms or definitions o o o o o o o o ICE Synonyms: Frodt. Definitions: a degree or state of coldness that is enough to cause the freezing of water. Greenland Synonyms: North Pole. Definitions: a self-governing island belonging to Denmark, located NE of North America: the largest island in the world. Antarctica Synonyms: South Pole Definitions: the continent surrounding the South Pole: almost entirely covered by an ice sheet. Accelerating Synonyms: speed up. Definitions: to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc. Loss Synonyms: mislaying. Definitions: the act of losing possession of something. Warming Synonyms: warm-up. Definitions: of or at a moderately high temperature; characterized by comparatively high temperature. Poles Synonyms: shaft. Definitions: each of the ends of the axis of the earth or of any rounded body. IMBIE Synonyms: No information. Definitions: Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise. o o o o IPCC Synonyms: No information. Definitions: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Flooding Synonyms: overflow. Definitions: a great flowing or overflowing of water, esp. over land not usually submerged. Climate Synonyms: weather Definitions: the general weather conditions of a region, averaged over a series of years. Change Synonyms: transform. Definitions: the act of changing or the result of being changed. 2. Summary of the article “Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating” in English based on the WH-Questions. o o o o o o What? the poles lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice in the period from 1992 to 2017. The ice sheets contribute about a third of all sea-level rise. it is estimated that the sea level will rise by approximately 70 cm, which would generate 400 million people at risk of coastal flooding Where? Greenland, Antarctica and coastal areas When? actually Who? Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (IMBIE). Why? Earth's great ice sheets, are now losing mass six times faster than they were in the 1990s thanks to warming conditions How? the southern polar ice sheet's losses come from the melting effects of warmer ocean water attacking its edges. The northern polar ice sheet feels a similar sort of assault but is also experiencing surface melt from warmer air temperatures. Summary Project researchers Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (IMBIE), conducted in Greenland and Antarctica, they Indicate that the poles lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice in the period from 1992 to 2017. They also determined thatthe ice sheets contribute about a third of all sea-level rise. it is estimated that the sea level will rise by approximately 70 cm, which would generate 400 million people at risk of coastal flooding. Because, Earth's great ice sheets, are now losing mass six times faster than they were in the 1990s thanks to warming conditions. Greenland and Antarctica are responding to climate change in slightly different ways. the southern polar ice sheet's losses come from the melting effects of warmer ocean water attacking its edges. The northern polar ice sheet feels a similar sort of assault but is also experiencing surface melt from warmer air temperatures. 3. Complete concept map
