Question

Project on climate, vegetation and natural resources of Saudi Arabia

Answer 1

Saudi Arabia:-

There are three climatic zones in the kingdom: (1) desert almost everywhere, (2) steppe along the western highlands, forming a strip less than 100 miles (160 km) wide in the north but becoming almost 300 miles (480 km) wide at the latitude of Mecca, and (3) a small area of humid and mild temperature conditions, with long summers, in the highlands just north of Yemen.

Major crops include cereals (wheat, sorghum, barley and millet), vegetables (tomato, watermelon, eggplant, potato, cucumber and onions), fruits (date-palm, citrus and grapes) and forage crops (alfalfa). These crops are cultivated over an area of nearly 1.1 million ha which represents about 81 percent of the total cultivated area. In 1990, wheat was cultivated over an area of about 744 422 ha (i.e. 55 percent of the total cultivated area), and production was about 3.5 million tonnes (Table 18).

Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, copper