Back to the full dot-point answer
QLDGeographyQuick questions
Unit 3: Responding to land cover transformations
Quick questions on The carbon cycle and land cover for QCE Geography Unit 3
1short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is the two-way link to climate?Show answer
Land cover and climate form a feedback relationship. Clearing forest adds carbon dioxide, which warms the climate; a warmer, drier climate then stresses remaining forest, increasing fire and dieback that release still more carbon. The Amazon illustrates this: parts of the south-eastern Amazon have shifted from a net sink toward a net source as clearing, drought and fire combine.
Have a question we have not covered?
This dot-point answer is short enough that we have not extracted many short questions yet. Read the full dot-point answer or ask Mo, our study assistant, in the chat for follow ups.