Theme and Specification link
This activity explores the causes, impacts and management of wildfires in the Amazon.
The link to the Financial Times article accompanying this activity can be found here:
This article underpins many aspects of carbon within the A Level Specifications specifically:
AQA
3.1.5.6 Fires in nature.
3.1.1.3 Carbon Cycle - changes in the carbon cycle over time, to include natural variation (including wildfires, volcanic activity)
Supporting 3.1.1.6 Case study of a tropical rainforest setting to illustrate and analyse key themes in water and carbon cycles and their relationship to environmental change and human activity.
3.1.6.3 Biomes - human activity and its impact on each biome, typical development issues in each biome to include changes in population, economic development, agricultural extension and intensification, implications for biodiversity and sustainability.
Edexcel
6.3 A balanced carbon cycle is important in sustaining other earth systems but is increasingly altered by human activities.
6.8 There are implications for human wellbeing from the degradation of the water and carbon cycles.
.9 Further planetary warming risks large-scale release of stored carbon, requiring responses from different players at different scales.
(Eduqas) and WJEC
(2)3.1.7 Carbon stores in different biomes.
(3)4.2.3 Biodiversity under threat.
OCR
3.b The food system is vulnerable to shocks that can impact food security.
