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Chapter Test

Chapter Test

This Chapter Test is a comprehensive set of questions that uses multiple ways to assess your comprehension of the chapter material.

This activity contains 15 questions.

	This photograph shows an area within the Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research site, New Mexico. What biome does the photo represent? What climatic and soil characteristics are associated with this biome?   tropical scrub tropical savanna desert midlatitude grassland Mediterranean woodland and scrub

	The deciduous nature of woody plants is most important in climatic environments that have   long cold winter but hot and very wet summers. excess precipitation soils that lack nutrients for at least a season of the year. an annual stressful season (e.g.,cold winter or dry season).

	Tropical savannas   are largely a response to seasonality in temperature. are largely a response to seasonality in precipitation. are dry during the high-Sun season. are mainly composed of needleaf evergreen trees. cannot support grasses.

	In low latitudes, which of the following factors most limits growth and determines the type of vegetation?   precipitation temperature insolation wind number of days of fog

	Plant adaptations to drought include   fleshy leaves. deep roots. dormancy. all the above.

	The ___ zoogeographic region is the home to the two only known egg-bearing mammals.   Nearctic Palearctic Ethiopian Australian Neotropical

	The boreal forest biome correlates with   the tundra climate. the humid subtropical climate. the marine west coast climate. the subarctic climate the humid continental climate.

	Plant succession and extinction is essentially the same thing.    True  False

	Savanna lands are dominated by trees with limited amount of grassland.    True  False

	The New Zealand region has a unique fauna dominated by birds that cannot fly. There are no mammals.    True  False

	When plant succession changes the local environment, one can expect that there will be an animal succession as well.    True  False

	The ____ slope tends to be hot and dry while the ____ slope is cooler and moister.   adret; ubac ubac; adret

	Match the characteristic to the zoogeographic region. A matching question presents 6 answer choices and 6 items. The answer choices are lettered A through F. The items are numbered 13.1 through 13.6. Screen readers will read the answer choices first. Then each item will be presented along with a select menu for choosing an answer choice. Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column. New Zealand Nearctic Madagascar Neotropical Oriental Ethiopian 13.1 most diverse vertebrate fauna   A B C D E F 13.2 connected to the Palearctic region by the Bering land bridge in times past   A B C D E F 13.3 fauna dominated by birds   A B C D E F 13.4 unusual faunal forms and primitive primates   A B C D E F 13.5 most endemic mammal families of any region   A B C D E F 13.6 brillantly colored birds, numerous reptiles, especially venomous snakes   A B C D E F

	Flora and Fauna Identification This question presents 5 items numbered 14.1 through 14.5. Each item is presented with a pulldown menu containing the letters A through E. For each item below, use the pull-down menu to select the letter that labels the correct part of the image. 14.1 gymnosperm A B C D E 14.2 arboreal fauna A B C D E 14.3 monotremes live here A B C D E 14.4 xerophytes A B C D E 14.5 hygrophytes A B C D E

	Why is the natural vegetation of the land surface of interest to a physical geographer?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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