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🌴 Tropical Rainforests – GCSE
Geography · GCSE — practise rainforest layers, adaptations, causes of deforestation and sustainable management
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What is the approximate average temperature in a tropical rainforest all year round?
About 5°C
About 15°C
About 27°C
About 38°C
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Which rainforest layer is made up of the tallest trees, which rise above the main tree tops?
Understorey
Emergent layer
Canopy
Forest floor
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Many rainforest trees have large buttress roots. What is their main purpose?
To store water for the dry season
To reach water deep underground
To protect the trunk from animals
To support tall trees in shallow soil
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Why do many rainforest leaves have pointed drip tips?
So the leaf loses less water in heat
So the leaf can trap more sunlight
So heavy rain runs off the leaf quickly
So animals cannot eat the leaf
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What mainly causes the heavy rain that falls on most afternoons in the rainforest?
Warm air meeting a mass of cold air
Hot, moist air rising, cooling and condensing
Wind blowing in from cold oceans
Moist air forced up over mountains
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Sloths have green algae growing in their fur. How does this help the sloth survive?
It keeps the sloth warm at night
It helps the sloth climb faster
It gives camouflage among the leaves
It provides the sloth's main food
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In the rainforest nutrient cycle, which store holds the largest amount of nutrients?
Bedrock
Soil
Biomass
Litter
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Which activity is the largest single cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest?
Cattle ranching
Mineral mining
Logging for timber
Building hydroelectric dams
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Why can large-scale deforestation lead to less rainfall in the local area?
Cleared land makes the air colder
Fewer trees means less evapotranspiration
Bare ground reflects less sunlight
Fewer trees means less carbon dioxide
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Which feature would best make an ecotourism project in the rainforest sustainable?
Local people work as guides and profits fund conservation
Tourists drive off-road to see more wildlife
Forest is cleared to build a large tourist hotel
Visitor numbers grow as fast as possible every year
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