Epics Tropical Environments: Contrasting Regimes And Challenges

Description

Students are helped to progress from GCSE and Standard Grade within each title, through regular questions and enquiry activities. The topic books are ideal for individual usage as the content is detailed and concise. This title offers valuable study for students with exam practice, as well as practice with the decision-making/enquiry approaches in the context of real places. Question banks focus on the development of core skills and will help students construct quality extended essays. Interest and motivation will be increased by the variety of approaches adopted by the various authors, all of whom are experienced educationalists.

Table of contents

Part 1 Introduction: widening horizons; tropical climates; potential and constraints; why are the Tropics an issue?. Part 2 Hot desert processes: definitions and delimitation; causes of aridity and heat; weathering and mass movement; aeolian processes; fluvial processes. Part 3 Hot desert environments: landforms; the past and the present; soils, flora and fauna. Part 4 Semi-arid environments: climate; processes; landforms; soils and ecosystems. Part 5 People and the dry Tropics: the survival of indigenous people; irrigation; mineral exploitation; desertification. Part 6 The humid Tropics: climatic characteristics; processes in the humid Tropics. Part 7 Tropical rain forests: soils; the structure of the rain forest; Part 8 People and the humid Tropics: traditional use of the rain forest; the painful transition; pressures on the rain forest; is sustainable development possible in the rain forest?. Part 9 The way forward?: wilderness regions; ecotourism; is ecotourism sustainable?; further reading and resources.