Exam 11: Terrestrial Flora and Fauna

Which of the following plant types is herbaceous?

Describe the principal characteristics of the animals of the Nearctic zoogeographic region.

Which biome has a high proportion of thorny plants?

Deforestation of rainforests has led to substantial economic gains for the countries involved.

Plants that live above ground and out of contact with the soil, usually growing on trees or shrubs, are ________.

The ________ is a South American plant that has been translocated and accidentally clogs Florida's waterways.

After the rainforest is cleared for agriculture, the most typical occurrence is that ________.

Grasses are a plant type not generally found in desert biomes.

The boundary between middle latitude forest and middle latitude grassland is most closely related to the concept of the ________.

In the desert biome, animal life can be said to be ________.

These plants perish during times of climatic stress:

________ are organisms of one species that infest the body of a creature of another species.

Which zoogeographic covers most of Asia?

Madagascar forms a separate biogeographic region in which primitive primates are prominent.

Which of the following is a plant which is exotic to Florida and has had disastrous environmental consequences?

Both steppe and tundra vegetation zones have ________ in common.

The true mosses, peat mosses, and liverworts are sporebearing plants belonging to the group called bryophytes.

Birds are thought to have evolved from ________.

________ is the scientist associated with the original mapping of zoogeographic regions.

A synonym for the boreal forest biome is ________.