Starter quiz
- Which of these terms is a more accurate way of saying the sun's rays are 'spread over a larger area'?
- accumulated
- biodiverse
- concentrated
- dispersed ✓
- extrapolated
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- Climate is the key factor influencing biome distribution because it influences ______ growth.
- 'plant' ✓
- Which of these biomes would be most likely to have developed in a tropical region with both a wet and a dry season?
- desert
- temperate grassland
- tropical grassland ✓
- tropical rainforest
- tundra
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- Altitude influences the ______: the height above which trees can’t grow.
- 'treeline' ✓
Limestone is a permeable rock and so limestone landscapes can have less vegetation because ...- there are lower temperatures because of increased albedo.
- there are too many nutrients due to weathering.
- there is less surface water available for plants. ✓
- there are problems with soils becoming waterlogged.
- trees cannot grow due to the dry seasons in this climate zone.
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- Google Earth is an example of a GIS application. GIS stands for ...
- Generalised Imaging Software.
- Geographic Information System. ✓
- Geospatial Integration Service.
- Global Information System.
- Global Integration Software.
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Exit quiz
- Which of the following refers to goods or resources obtained or extracted from ecosystems?
- cultural services
- provisioning services ✓
- regulating services
- supporting services
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- Which of these is an example of a mineral resource?
- fish
- freshwater
- nickel ore ✓
- sago palm
- wild boar
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- The Hongana Manyawa are an ______ people living on the Indonesian island of Halmahera.
- colonial
- European
- indigenous ✓
- immigrant
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- The ______ provides the Hongana Manyawa people with the resources they need to live: food, freshwater, fuel, medicine and the building materials needed to construct their homes.
- 'rainforest' ✓
- Match the following terms that relate to the lifestyle of indigenous peoples to the correct definitions.
- hunter-gatherer⇔foraging or gathering food and/or hunting wild animals ✓
- semi-nomadic⇔lifestyle that involves staying in one place temporarily before moving ✓
- shifting cultivation⇔farming a plot for just a few years before leaving it to regenerate ✓
- slash-and-burn agriculture⇔cutting and burning small areas of forest to create plots to farm ✓
- The clearance of rainforest areas to enable the ______ of nickel and other minerals may result in Hongana Manyawa indigenous people losing their homes and their livelihoods.
- 'mining' ✓
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Key learning points
- The biosphere provides resources for local people.
- The biosphere is an important source of commercial resources, such as energy, water and minerals.
Common misconception
Indigenous people are cut off from the commercial world.
Indigenous people are increasingly linked to the wider world through technology and are affected by large-scale commercial resource exploitation.
Keywords
Biosphere - the 'living' layer of Earth below the atmosphere
Indigenous people - people who have inhabited an area from the earliest times before the arrival of colonists
Resources - materials available in the environment (such as water, food and wood) that support our wants and needs
Commercial exploitation - the extraction and trading of materials, such as wood, for profit
Mineral resources - economically-valuable material concentrated in the Earth's crust, such as copper and oil
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