Learning outcomes

By the end of this unit you should be able to:

• know the impacts that climate change is having on the natural environment;

• understand how climate change can lead to habitat destruction and how habitat destruction can interact with other aspects of climate change to threaten the survival of some animal species;

• understand how climate change has the potential to exacerbate air pollution with potentially life threatening consequences;

• understand how soil erosion may be made worse by climate change and could in turn lead to further climate change;

• recognise how systems work by seeing the relationships between climate and other forms of environmental change.