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Worksheet: Predicting the future

 Sheet 3: Worksheet on the case studies in Egypt and Spain

Important:

To do the following exercises you should have read the two texts about the case studies (case study Egypt and case study Spain).

1. Irrigation systems

As you know the agriculture in Egypt is restricted to the fertile lands of the Nile valley and the Nile delta.

There the agricultural land has to be irrigated almost permanently. Therefore the regularly occurring flood water of the Nile was stacked up on the fields without control in former times.

On the opposite some parts of the agricultural land in Spain is irrigated by the so-called drip-irrigation, a special form of localized irrigation. That means that the water is given drip by drip into the area of the plants through special nozzles.

Exercise:

Search the internet for pictures of drip-irrigation.

Then compare those two sorts of irrigation and consider carefully the pros and cons.

Which technique is the best for the situation in the respective countries?

2. Climate change scenarios in Spain

Exercise:

a) Look into your atlas and find out the main agricultural areas in Spain and what is cultivated there.

Make a rough list with products and regions where these products are cultivated!

b) Describe and compare the four scenario maps of Spain roughly and draw a conclusion referring to the present state in Spain. Therefore read the relevant text once again.

Where do you see alternatives for the future?

Scenario maps of Spain, image source: see chapter 2, Predicting the future, text "Case study, spain"

About this page:

- Author: S. Schnell - University of Nürnberg - Germany
- scientific reviewing:
- educational reviewing: Dr. Schrettenbrunner / J. Heres
- last update: 07.01.04