Combined Science GCSE
Peat as a slow-forming, carbon-rich resource
What Peat as a slow-forming, carbon-rich resource means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Peat accumulates very slowly over thousands of years from partly decayed plant material in waterlogged, oxygen-poor conditions and stores carbon.
Topics that use Peat as a slow-forming, carbon-rich resource
- Land use (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Biodiversity loss
- Combustion
- Competition for finite land
- Greenhouse gas
- Habitat destruction and fragmentation
- Biodiversity decline
- Carbon store
- Decay
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