Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Unit 1 topic 2
- Little ice age
- Environmental
- Glaciers destroy villages
- Cold rain over europe
- Glaciers fromed
- Economic
- Both
- wheat and oats not ripen
- Crops stopped
- Social
- All
- Potato's grown in bad weather
- Socio-econmoic
- farmers died of hunger because of no food
- Frost fairs of the ice
- plaige
- Impacts of Climate in the UK
- In unit 1 book with all info in note and pictures.
- Environmental impacts
- Rising sea levels causing major erosion
- More land is useable at higher altitude
- Increase in flooding
- Summers will be colder
- Higher rainfall
- Economic impacts
- more droughts and water shortages
- More illness
- hot temps melt roads and rail lines buckle
- Farmers changing crops which don't need as much water
- people taking holidays in England which
would be good for tourisum
- Egypt
- 99% of the people live in 5% of the country
- In flood, 7 million people would have to move
- less forming
- Flat and just under the sea levels
- If the sea level rises 50cm, over a third of Alexandria will be under water
- LEDC's doesn't have plans to protect its self
- Inertial land away from the river, no good for farming
- On the edge
- Sea levels rising
- if sea levels rise by 50cm the land will be flooded
- 1/3 of Alexandria will be under water
- The same sea level rise and the nile
delta will be 10% flooded
- 7 million people will ha to find new accommodation
- therefore people could die because of lack of
food and water, they would have no homes
- Conflict over water
- Countries south of Egypt are taking
more and more money from the Nile
- Uganda, for example, has built the $862 million
bujagali dam
- This has meant that the amount of water
avalible per person in Egypt is 950cm^3
- Therefore, the 6 million acres of irrupted farmland
could die
- Cant protect it self from GW
- Its an LEDC
- Cant make plans for when it floods
- This can lead to lots of people being killed
- Water shortage because of dam being made
- Leads to possible future wars
- Climate in the UK
- In book (Colour pics of UK
- Food chains in book