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GCSE Geography · AQA style · Paper 1 Living with the physical environment
Causes of deforestation (6 marks)
AO1AO26 marks · about 8 minutes

Using an example you have studied, explain the causes of deforestation in a tropical rainforest. [6 marks]

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AO1 (published assessment objective): Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas; select and synthesise evidence from different texts (English Language). For Literature: read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style, developing an informed personal response, and using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations. For Geography: demonstrate knowledge of locations, places, processes, environments and different scales. For History: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the periods studied.

AO2 (published assessment objective): Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views (English). For Geography: demonstrate geographical understanding of concepts and how they are used in relation to places, environments and processes, and the interrelationships between places, environments and processes. For History: explain and analyse historical events and periods studied using second-order historical concepts.

Assessed against AO1, AO2 using Revision Robin's own level descriptors below. These are not the exam board's mark scheme. Every quotation in the feedback is checked against your answer before you see it, and a teacher's mark overrides ours.

Level 3 · 5 to 6Thorough, well-developed response. Applies accurate geographical knowledge and understanding to the question with developed, linked reasoning; uses specific examples, data or case-study detail; where the command word asks for it, reaches a supported, balanced judgement.
Level 2 · 3 to 4Clear response. Applies relevant knowledge and understanding with some developed reasoning; uses some specific detail; a judgement is made and partly supported.
Level 1 · 1 to 2Basic response. Some relevant knowledge; points are stated rather than explained; examples are generic or missing; any judgement is asserted, not supported.