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Tropical rainforests

Geography · GCSE · AQA · AQA GCSE Geography (8035) · Specification point · 3.1.2.2 · Living with the physical environment · Section B: The living world

Tropical rainforest physical characteristics

Tropical rainforest interdependence

Tropical rainforest plant adaptations

Tropical rainforest animal adaptations

Tropical rainforest biodiversity

Changing rates of tropical deforestation

Causes of tropical deforestation

Impacts of tropical deforestation

Value of tropical rainforests

Sustainable rainforest forestry

Rainforest conservation

Rainforest ecotourism

International tropical timber agreements

Debt reduction for rainforest conservation

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3.1.2.2 Tropical rainforests

Key idea	Specification content
$Tropical rainforest ecosystems have a range of distinctive characteristics.$	$The physical characteristics of a tropical rainforest. The interdependence of climate, water, soils, plants, animals and people. How plants and animals adapt to the physical conditions. Issues related to biodiversity.$
$Deforestation has economic and environmental impacts.$	$Changing rates of deforestation. A case study of a tropical rainforest to illustrate: causes of deforestation - subsistence and commercial farming, logging, road building, mineral extraction, energy development, settlement, population growth impacts of deforestation - economic development, soil erosion, contribution to climate change.$
$Tropical rainforests need to be managed to be sustainable.$