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Sustaining Ecosystems
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40 OCR GCSE Geography questions on Sustaining Ecosystems, each with instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme.

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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

What is deforestation?

  1. The planting of new trees on land that was never forest
  2. The replanting of trees where a forest has been cut down
  3. The cutting down or burning of forests to clear the land
  4. The protection of forests from any human activity
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✓ Answer: C — The cutting down or burning of forests to clear the land
Award 1 mark. Deforestation removes forest, often for farming, logging or mining. Planting on new land is afforestation, replanting is reforestation, and protection is conservation.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

What does biodiversity mean?

  1. The number of people living in a rainforest
  2. The amount of rain that falls in a year
  3. The variety of plant and animal species in an area
  4. The height of the tallest trees in a forest
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✓ Answer: C — The variety of plant and animal species in an area
Award 1 mark. High biodiversity makes ecosystems more resilient. The number of people, the amount of rain and tree height are not what biodiversity measures.
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Are the Sustaining Ecosystems questions aligned to the official OCR GCSE Geography syllabus?
Every question is written against the published OCR GCSE Geography specification, including the exact command words (state, describe, explain, calculate, evaluate, etc.), mark allocations, and difficulty tier you'd see on a real OCR paper. Explanations are written in the style of official examiner mark schemes — they tell you what is being awarded marks and why distractors are wrong, not just whether you got it right. The bank is continually refined to match the latest syllabus updates from OCR.
How is Sustaining Ecosystems typically tested on OCR GCSE Geography papers?
Sustaining Ecosystems appears across multiple question types on real OCR GCSE Geography papers — most commonly as multiple-choice questions in the objective section, structured short-answer questions in the main paper, and occasionally as part of an extended response. Kramizo's practice bank reflects that mix: 4-option MCQs, true/false statements, fill-in-the-blank key terms, multi-select questions, and ordering questions. Working through the bank gives you exposure to every question style examiners actually use.

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