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Food and Climate
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1. Past and present
2. Predicting the future
- realities and uncertainties
- global change
- case study, Egypt
- case study, Spain
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3. Drought in the Mediterranean
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Worksheet 1: Global Change

 

 

 

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Can you answer the following questions?

 

Have another look at the text on global change then see if you can answer these questions.

1) How much has the average global temperature risen in the 20th century?

a) 0.1 - 0.4°C
b) 0.4 - 0.8°C
c) 0. 8 - 1.1°C
d) 1.1 - 1.5°C

 

2) Climate models predict that the average global temperature will rise during the 21st century.  By how much?
a) a warming of 0.5 to 1.3°C
b) warming of 1.4 to 5.8°C
c) warming of 3.5 to 6.5°C
d) warming of 5.5 to 7.5°C

3) How much more rain will fall globally as a result of global warming?
a) about 2 - 7%
b) about 5 - 20%
c) about 20 - 35%
d) about 25 - 40%

 

4) In which season will the temperature rise the most?
a) spring
b) summer
c) autumn
d) winter

5) Why is sea level rising?
a) Mainly because water expands as its temperature increases.
b) Mainly because the waves are getting higher.
c) Mainly because polar ice caps melt as temperatures increase.
d) Mainly because the rivers contain more water.

 

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About this page:
author: B. Wohlhöfer - University of Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
educational reviewing: Dr. Helmut Schrettenbrunner and Julia Heres - University of Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
last update: 2003-11-24

 

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