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Paper 2 Advanced Physical Options
October/November 2012
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level
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Fig. 1 for Question 1
The destruction of tropical rainforests
Tropic of Cancer
15 %
are in Africa
and Madagascar
48 %
are in South
America and
the Caribbean
37 %
are in the Asia /
Pacific region
Tropic of Capricorn
15 %
of man-made
CO2 emissions
are absorbed
by the forests
An area of tropical
forest the size of
England (130 000 km2)
is lost every year
20 bn
tonnes of water
rise daily from the
Amazon rainforest
How we are destroying the rainforests
commercial
crops
20 %
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cattle
ranching
12 %
fuel wood and
non-timber
products for
domestic use
6%
smallholder
farming
42.5 %
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commercial
logging
14 %
fuel wood
and charcoal
(traded)
5.5 %
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Key
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moderate threat
serious threat
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Philippines
Sundaland
Wallacea
Gulf of Guinea
Southern Mascarene Islands
Eastern Southern Africa
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Coral reefs under threat
Fig. 2 for Question 3
North Indian Ocean
Southern Japan, Taiwan and
Southern China
9 Cape Verde Islands
10 Western Caribbean
11 The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
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Fig. 3 for Question 5
Some methods to predict and monitor earthquakes
satellite surveying /
remote sensing
laser reflector
levelling
water table
level
seismometer
strain
meter
radon gas
sensor
gravity
meter
Fig. 4 for Question 7
Some landforms in a hot arid environment
wadi or arroyo
(narrow canyon)
alluvial fan
incised channels,
coarse debris
pediment
1° to 7° slope
playa lake
or pan
sand dunes
braided channels,
finer debris
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