This document outlines questions for an Erasmus+ learning activity taking place in Germany from April 17-21, 2023 on the topic of climate change and sea level rise in Northern Europe over the last 10,000 years. The questions cover various topics including whether climate change is natural or human-caused, the effects of rising sea levels in Northern Europe, the difference between storms and storm surges, and the impact of climate change on bird migration patterns. Participants are asked to explain terms like tundra, moraines, glacial valleys, wurt, dike, dewatering, and "Spatenrecht" in the context of transforming Northern Germany from an uninhabitable ice shield and tundra

1. Erasmus+ Learning, teaching and training ac4vity
Germany 17.4. – 21.4.2023
Curse or blessing ?
Climate change and the rising of the sea level
in northern Europe
during the last 10 000 years

2. Erasmus+ Learning, teaching and training ac4vity
Germany 17.4. – 21.4.2023
Ques4ons/Assignments
A
1. Is climate change a natural process or human made?
2. What is the main effect of the climate change of the last
10 000 years?
3. Do we presently live in the period of an Ice Age?
4. What are so-called warm and cold periods of the Ice Age?
5. Referring to the terms above, what is the scien4fically correct
name of our present situa4on?
6. Was our planet Earth “normally”/most of the 4mes during the
last 7 billion years covered par4ally or totally with ice or not?
7. What results of the mel4ng of the ice shield during the last
10 000 years can be observed in northern Europe?
8. Explain the terms a) tundra, b) moraines, c) glacial valley/
ancient river valley

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B
1. Parts of northern Germany as well as the Netherlands are
already below the present sea level. Right or wrong?
2. Was the loss of land, therefore the change of coastline,
caused by the rising sea level or by storm surges?
3. When did the most severe storms take place in the past 1000
years and approximately how many lives were lost in each
event? Name at least 5 storm surges in different centuries!
4. Why do the storms today cause less vic4ms than the storm
surges in the past, even though today many more people live
in coastal area?
5. What is the difference between storms and storm surges in
northern Europe?
6. How o`en and when do they primarily happen?

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C
Climate change and human ac4vi4es
By nature northern Germany (wet triangle) went through a
transforma4on from Ice shield and Tundra to a swampy uninhabitable
region plus a few scadered hills.
What has been done during the last 2000 years to make this area a
livable one.
To explain, apply the terms:
Wurt, Dike, dewatering
Explain the term:
“Spatenrecht”

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One more assignment
D
Explain the posi4ve effect of the climate change of the last 10000
years
on the migra4on of birds in the
north European hemisphere

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