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The Santa Cruz pupfish is extinct. This affects the biodiversity of the area where it lived. Suggest the effect on biodiversity of the extinction of the Santa Cruz pupfish. Explain your answer.
See it on the paper →Humans burn the grass. This removes the grass from the ecosystem. Suggest the impacts on the ecosystem of burning the grass.
See it on the paper →What is meant by the term biodiversity?
See it on the paper →Which statement about the data in the chart is correct?
See it on the paper →Protecting land from deforestation helps stop the loss of soil. This is because tree roots hold the soil together, stopping it being washed away. Suggest two other benefits of protecting land from deforestation.
See it on the paper →From which farm is untreated sewage leaking into the river?
See it on the paper →Candidates were very confused by this question on continuous and discontinuous data. Very few read the bar chart correctly to deduce that there were no intermediates between fingerprint types, and they were equally divided on whether the data shown was continuous or discontinuous. This suggests that they do not understand the meanings of the terms, and what this type of chart displays.
— Examiner report, May/June 2023, 0654/12 Q11 (Cambridge)
This part was well answered with many candidates gaining full marks.
— Examiner report, May/June 2021, 0654/33 Q7(e) (Cambridge)
Many candidates found this question challenging, with slightly less than half the candidates getting it right. They needed to look carefully at the labelling on the diagram.
— Examiner report, October/November 2020, 0654/11 Q13 (Cambridge)
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