465·Geography · GCSE
The World's
Living
Greenhouse
GCSE Geography Knowledge Mat — Rainforests (PDF)
How the richest ecosystem on Earth grows on some of its poorest soil — and why that makes clearing it so hard to undo. The layered structure and the water cycle, then the nutrient cycle that explains the paradox, then deforestation and which responses hold up. Three case studies, interdependence drawn as a chain, seven terms to define, a worked exam-style sentence, and the misconceptions that cost marks. The photographs are satellite and science imagery, including the fishbone pattern of road-led clearance from orbit.
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One purchase covers the school that buys it. Print it, copy it, hand it round your department. Not for passing to other schools or uploading anywhere.
One landscape A4 page on one topic, led by the photographs rather than the headings. It carries climate, water and structure, the nutrient cycle and why the soil is poor, deforestation and what actually works — then the vocabulary, a worked exam-style sentence and the misconceptions that cost marks.
Every image on the sheet is a real archival or scientific photograph, not an illustration and not AI-generated. Each one was checked against its own licence template rather than a label, and the running foot names every creator, states that the images have been cropped and adjusted for print, and links the licence — so the sheet can be photocopied for a class and stay compliant. Nothing is reproduced from a past paper, a textbook or a specification.
Sold as a single page because that is what it is. A knowledge organiser stores a unit and is revised from afterwards; this is meant to be on the table while the work is happening.
- Written to The DfE subject content for geography, section 17, and the topic as AQA 8035, Pearson Edexcel B 1GB0 and OCR B J384 set it. Every photograph is a sourced image, licensed for reuse and credited on the sheet
- Intended for geography teachers — on the desk during the lesson, not a student revision guide
- Extent 1 page · 8 sections
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