Sinking Islands

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Sinking Islands

Solutions/Preventive Measures

incorporate mangroves and sea grasses into the design of dikes

Implications

Other Sustainable Sources of Water

Will Singapore be affected?

Examples of Sinking Islands or Cities

Mythical Sunken Cities

Mu

Atlantis

Islands

Maldives

Iran

Shanghai

Venice

Mexico

US

Arizona

Possible Causes

Natural

Plate Tectonics

Subduction of land

Earthquakes

Evidence of Plate Movements:Hawaiian Islands

Resources:

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ozsvath/Assignments/PlateTectonics.htm

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.hawaii/

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2003/929822.htm

http://www.gns.cri.nz/research/tectonics/plate.html

Manmade

Buildings are too Heavy

Erosion of Underground Materials

Removal of Groundwater

Land subsidence

Evidence: Iran

Evidence:Arizona

Global Warming

Rising Sea Level

Melting of Ice caps

Expansion of Water