The Greenland StoryMap Collection targets the following areas of the 2023-2024 AQA Geography A-Level specifications. 1: Physical Geography: Water and Carbon Cycles The water cycle: Cryosphere. The StoryMaps introduce students to the Greenland Ice Sheet, a major component of the global cryosphere and a significant store of water (7% of the Earth’s freshwater). Students will […]
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Here is a scheme of work to aid teachers in lesson planning for A-Level Geography (16-18 years old). This scheme of work covers three A-Level lessons, each assumed to be one double lesson long. Lesson One covers StoryMap 1: Where is Greenland. Lesson Two covers StoryMap 2: What lies beneath the ice of Greenland? Lesson
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Introducing the Hidden Landscapes of Greenland StoryMap Collection Here is a collection of four Greenland StoryMaps covering the landscape beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, launched as a collection in May 2024. They are suitable for UK GCSE to A-level (age ~16 to 18). The StoryMaps are presented alongside supportive material including a video interview, images
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The outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are receding, calving more icebergs, and flowing faster. Further in land, the ice sheet is thinning, and there is more surface melt. The Greenland Ice Sheet is drained by outlet glaciers that flow through deep fjords to the ocean. In the image below, you can see an
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By Dr Tom Slater, University of Leeds, UK How does mass balance vary over Greenland? The mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet is the net difference between ice gains through snowfall, and ice losses through melting at its surface or underneath its floating ice tongues, and through the calving of icebergs from glaciers flowing
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By Lauren Rawlins, University of York Since the early 1990’s, the amount of meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet has dramatically increased due to rising air temperatures from climatic warming and darkening of the ice surface (1). Observations from satellite imagery over this time have seen the supraglacial hydrology system become more extensive, form further
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is one of two continent-scale ice masses on Earth, with the other being the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. It lies from 71°N northwards, between the Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean [1]. Almost 80% of Greenland’s landmass is covered by
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By Neil McDonald, Stirling University What is an ice tongue? Ice tongues are simply floating platforms of ice which are attached to the front of marine-terminating glaciers and extend into the sea. Ice tongues differ from ice shelves as they are confined by valley walls and have a narrow width relative to their length, hence
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is the world’s second ice sheet. It lies in the Northern Hemisphere. It is quite different to Antarctica in character. It has enough ice to raise global sea levels by about 7.4 m on full melting (Morlighein et al., 2018). Like Antarctica, its ocean-terminating outlet glaciers are vulnerable to ocean heating.
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How much land ice is there in the World? Most (99.5%) of the permanent ice volume in the world is locked up in ice sheets and glaciers. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest store of frozen freshwater; it would raise sea levels by 57.9 m (its “sea level equivalent”, or SLE) on full melting
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