What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0460 Geography papers and filtered to climate and natural vegetation. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on climate and natural vegetation, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Confusing the two pressure systems. Equatorial is low pressure with rising air. Hot desert is high pressure with descending air. Getting these the wrong way round destroys every explanation that follows.
- Explaining equatorial rainfall as relief rainfall. It is convectional, and the mark scheme caps a relief answer at 2 marks.
- Saying equatorial areas have no variation in rainfall. Temperature barely varies; rainfall does, and one mark scheme was built entirely around that distinction.
- Answering a local effects question with global ones (global warming, melting ice, rising sea level), or a global question with local ones. Mark schemes list the wrong scale explicitly as not credited.
- Giving the cause of deforestation when the question asks for the effect. "Trees are chopped down" scores zero on an effects question.
- Naming a plant or animal without an adaptation. "Cacti" earns nothing. "Cacti have fleshy stems that store water" earns the mark.
- Describing a feature without saying what it does, or explaining a function without naming the feature. Both halves are required, and the mark schemes say so.
- Writing about managing deforestation. This syllabus point asks for causes and effects only. Management belongs to 3.7.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Climate and natural vegetation revision notes.