The cards Question What is a biome? Tap to flip Answer A large-scale ecosystem with a specific climate, plants and animals. Question What are the biotic components of an environment? Tap to flip Answer Its living components, such as plants, animals and microorganisms. Question What are the abiotic components of an environment? Tap to flip Answer Its non-living components, such as temperature, rainfall, humidity, soil quality and sunlight. Question The abiotic characteristics of tropical rainforests result from which type of climate? Tap to flip Answer The equatorial climate. Question How is the vegetation of a tropical rainforest structured? Tap to flip Answer Into layers. Question Does it rain continually in a tropical rainforest? Tap to flip Answer No. It often rains every day, but the rain is often short and intense rather than continual. Question Do all tropical rainforests have the same rainfall all year round? Tap to flip Answer No. Some rainforests have drier and wetter seasons. Question What is an adaptation? Tap to flip Answer A feature or behaviour that helps an animal or plant survive in its environment. Question What is a habitat? Tap to flip Answer The natural place where a plant or animal lives and grows. Question Give one example of a plant adaptation to tropical rainforest conditions. Tap to flip Answer For example drip tips or buttress roots. Question Plants on the tropical rainforest floor need adaptations for which condition? Tap to flip Answer Low light levels. Question What is biodiversity? Tap to flip Answer A measure of how many different species live in an ecosystem. Question What are nutrients? Tap to flip Answer Chemical substances found in all biotic features that are important for survival. Question What does interdependent mean? Tap to flip Answer When two or more biotic features, such as plants or animals, depend on each other to survive. Question Is the rate of nutrient cycling in tropical rainforests high or low? Tap to flip Answer High. Question Are tropical rainforest soils nutrient-rich or nutrient-poor? Tap to flip Answer Nutrient-poor. Question Give one reason why tropical rainforest soils are nutrient-poor. Tap to flip Answer Nutrients are taken up rapidly by biomass, or heavy rainfall washes them out of the soil through leaching and runoff. Question What kind of food webs do tropical rainforests support? Tap to flip Answer Complex food webs. Question What is deforestation? Tap to flip Answer The large-scale removal or clearing of forests. Question What are subsistence farmers? Tap to flip Answer Farmers who grow only enough food for themselves. Question Give one cause of deforestation in tropical rainforests. Tap to flip Answer For example commercial logging, agriculture or mineral resources. Question Is tropical rainforest deforestation mainly caused by small-scale subsistence farmers? Tap to flip Answer No. It is driven by large-scale commercial activities, such as industrial agriculture, logging and cattle ranching, often linked to global demand. Question Give one industrial crop linked to tropical rainforest deforestation. Tap to flip Answer For example palm oil or soy. Question Where are most of Indonesia's rainforests located? Tap to flip Answer In Borneo, Papua and Sumatra. Question Is Indonesia a single large island? Tap to flip Answer No. It is an archipelago, a group of over 17 000 islands. Question Give one cause of deforestation in Indonesia. Tap to flip Answer For example subsistence farming, commercial farming, logging, energy or population growth. Question Give one impact of deforestation in Indonesia. Tap to flip Answer For example erosion, pollution, habitat loss, carbon emissions or economic development. Question When valuing rainforests, what are goods? Tap to flip Answer Physical resources or products that people and animals can harvest or use directly. Question When valuing rainforests, what is a service? Tap to flip Answer A natural process or benefit that rainforests provide to support life on Earth, often indirectly. Question Give one value of tropical rainforests other than timber and agricultural products. Tap to flip Answer For example regulating the global climate, absorbing CO2, producing oxygen, maintaining biodiversity, supporting the water cycle or preventing soil erosion. Question What does sustainable mean? Tap to flip Answer Using resources in a way that means future generations will still be able to use them in the same way. Question What is conservation? Tap to flip Answer Protecting and managing natural resources to prevent damage and maintain biodiversity. Question Give one local action that helps manage tropical rainforests sustainably. Tap to flip Answer For example alternative livelihoods, reforestation, sustainable farming or ecotourism. Question Are only large global organisations responsible for protecting rainforests? Tap to flip Answer No. Both global and local actions are vital: global efforts fund and advocate, while local communities protect the forests. Question What is remote sensing? Tap to flip Answer Collecting data at a distance, observed by satellite or aircraft, from what objects, living things or areas reflect or emit on different wavelengths. Question What is the difference between satellite imagery and aerial imagery? Tap to flip Answer Satellite imagery uses observations made by satellites; aerial imagery uses observations made by aircraft. Question Give one tool for studying historical satellite and aerial imagery. Tap to flip Answer For example a swipe tool such as the Esri Wayback App, or 3D GIS. Question Why can green areas on a satellite image of a rainforest region be misleading? Tap to flip Answer Green may be a palm oil plantation or fields rather than natural rainforest vegetation. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Tropical rainforest Exam boards AQA England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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