WRG Video Anthology and Quiz

Climate Change Refugees

After watching the Climate Change Refugees video, consider the questions below. Then "submit" your response.

1. This people shown in this video live where?

India

The South Pacific

Indonesia

Australia

2. The primary environmental difficulty faced by the islanders is:

Typhoons

Tsunamis

Sea-level rise

Lack of fresh water

3. Which of the following statements does not accurately reflect life on the islands?

The islanders still live in the traditional way they have for generations.

The islanders have always depended on the sea for their livelihood.

The islanders enjoy many of the benefits of modern technology.

The islanders have had little contact with the outside world until now.

4. Which of the following is not a strategy used by the islanders to cope with the changes they now face?

Praying for help from God.

Appealing to the United Nations for help.

Building barriers with giant clamshells to keep the sea away.

Moving away from the sunken islands.

5. Refugees are defined by geographers as:

Seasonal migrants.

People forced to flee their homelands against their will.

Migrants who travel to a new land looking for better opportunity.

Migrants who enter a country illegally.