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Warmer temperatures

turn ice into water


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This means the level of the sea will rise.

Low parts of the coast of Wales may flood.






























Try This!
Find a map of Wales in an atlas and write down some places you think might be flooded by the sea in the future.
Below is an image of a mosquito


mosquito

More may move into Wales if the weather becomes warmer.

Some carry disease.

Try this!
Click on the correct answer shown in green.


Warmer temperatures will also warm the sea around Wales.

This will affect the food chain

Gannets
Gannets
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Try this!


Seaweed only grows at a particular temperature.

If the sea was warmer the seaweed would not grow so well.

This in turn will affect the food chain. [where animals eat other animals which eat vegetation.]

So sea birds around Wales will be affected.




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