Unit 1 topic 2

Unit 1 topic 2

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Climate in the UK

   • In book (Colour pics of UK

5. Food chains in book