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GCSE Geography · AQA style · Paper 1 Living with the physical environment
Impacts of Deforestation (6 marks)
AO1AO26 marks · about 9 minutes

Explain how deforestation in tropical rainforests can lead to both local and global environmental impacts. [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 6Detailed and accurate explanation of a range of local and global impacts, showing clear links between deforestation and these impacts. Uses precise geographical terminology and specific place-specific detail to support points.
Level 2 · 3 to 4Clear explanation of some local and/or global impacts of deforestation. Makes some links between deforestation and impacts. Uses some geographical terminology and includes some place-specific detail.
Level 1 · 1 to 2Basic description of one or two impacts of deforestation. Limited or no links to the cause. Uses limited geographical terminology and lacks place-specific detail.