AQA Alevel Env Sci - Aquatic & Forest Resources - Knowledge check & MS

This resource is a diagnostic knowledge check for the Aquatic Food Production and Forest Resources sections of the AQA A-level Environmental Science specification.

It is designed to help students and teachers identify gaps in understanding after teaching the Biological Resources content on aquatic and forest resource exploitation. The questions are original and structured into recall, application and skills/data analysis sections.

The knowledge check covers:

• marine productivity and limiting factors
• light, nutrients, coastal waters, open oceans and upwelling
• fishing methods and their environmental impacts
• Maximum Sustainable Yield, MSY
• overfishing, by-catch, ghost fishing and seabed damage
• methods used to estimate fish populations
• aquaculture, productivity and environmental impacts
• forest resources and ecosystem services
• forest productivity and timber plantations
• impacts of deforestation and forest exploitation
• biodiversity, carbon storage and habitat fragmentation
• sustainable management of aquatic and forest resources

The resource includes:

• Section A: Recall questions
• Section B: Application questions
• Section C: Skills and data analysis
• full teacher mark scheme
• specification point mapping for each question
• maths and working scientifically links where relevant
• diagnostic notes for teachers

Suitable for end-of-topic review, retrieval practice, homework, Paper 2 revision or identifying misconceptions before assessment.