The Amazon Rainforest OCR A Level Geography case study Earth Life Support Systems

ELSS Case Study on the Amazon Rainforest and it’s water and carbon cycles. The powerpoint resource gives an in depth guide to the processes and stores within these cycles and includes information surrounding all the specificatioj points including:

• water and carbon cycles specific to tropical rainforests, including the
rates of flow and distinct stores. How an individual tree through to the
rainforest as a whole can influence these cycles
• physical factors affecting the flows and stores in the water cycle,
including temperature, rock permeability and porosity and relief
• physical factors affecting the flows and stores in the carbon cycle,
including temperature, vegetation, organic matter in soil and the
mineral composition of rocks
• for one drainage basin in the tropical rainforest, explore the changes to
the flows and stores within the water cycle caused by natural and
human factors such as deforestation and farming factors
• the impact of human activity, such as deforestation and farming, on
carbon flows, soil and nutrient stores
• strategies to manage the tropical rainforest such as afforestation and
improved agriculture techniques that have positive effects on the
water and carbon cycles