GCSE Battle Of The Biosphere
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- Geography GCSE: battle of the biosphere
- Amazon Rainforest
- South America and on equator as best conditions for Rain forest. Hot and humid conditions cause prolific growth as a low pressure area.
- The Amazon rainforest aids the biosphere in many ways: It is a carbon sink and creates oxygen, it regulates the water cycle and it keeps soil healthy so plants can grow.
- Keywords
- Ecosystem:a grouping of plants and animals that interact with each other and their local environment.
- Biome: A large ecosystem
- Types of biomes: coniferous, deciduous, tundra, tropical and desert.
- Threats to the biosphere: Deforestation, Mining, Quarrying, Farming, Over-fishing. As well as sea temperature rise, seawater acidification, melting of polar ice caps, changes in amounts of rainfall, treeline changes, stress within ecosystems due to rapid change
- Reason for forest destruction
- Timber, Housing, economy, transport, mining and building human settlements.
- Factors affecting biomes
- rock and soil type, rainfall, altitude, distance from sea and drainage.
- Biosphere management
- If managed well sustainable future is enabled
- Tensions can arise with social factors, environmental, and economic.
- Amazon Rainforest
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