IB ESS SL 4.3.7 Climate Change Impacts Questions
Analyse how warming, acidification and circulation changes affect aquatic systems.
- Syllabus
- First assessment 2026
- Course
- ESS SL
- Level
- SL
Exam points
- explain how ocean acidification and climate change alter pH, currents, upwelling, prey distribution and marine food webs
- link climate-driven changes in marine systems to impacts on species, fisheries, food security and coastal societies
- evaluate climate-change impacts by weighing ecological, economic and social consequences for environmental systems and people
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IB ESS SL 4.3.7 Climate Change Impacts Questions question 1
[Maximum number: 4]
Outline four impacts of climate change on wild fisheries.
Increased temperature (especially in Tropical/low-latitude waters) would reduce fish stocks/increase fish mortality / marine species unable to adapt to increased temperatures will be reduced/go extinct;
b. Increased temperatures in high latitude waters might increase fish stocks;
c. Increased temperatures will cause changes in fish migration routes/patterns/ some areas may benefit from immigration of more fish species / most will see steep declines;
d. Increased temperatures reduce survival of juvenile fish/alters mating behavior/reduces reproductive output, thus reducing fish population;
e. Increased temperature will bleach corals/degrade marine habitats/webs;
f. Loss of oxygen in warmer waters is lethal (especially to non-mobile bottom dwellers/in close, shallow water bodies), destroying food webs on which fisheries depend;
Note to examiners: Credit any valid statement of equivalent significance and validity;
accept reference to freshwater systems.
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