Exam 11: Terrestrial Flora and Fauna

Which of the following is NOT common animal adaptation to prolonged dry weather?

The tallest trees in the Tropics are found in the savanna biome.

________ is a biome adapted to summer fires and rapid vegetative recovery.

Except in the rainy tropics, virtually all needleleaf trees are ________.

The richest assemblage of flora and fauna outside the tropics are in the ________ biome.

By far, the zoogeographic region with the most distinct flora and fauna is ________.

________ is NOT one of the world's biomes.

Plants adapted to environments with surplus moisture are called ________.

Discuss the reason that only about a third of Earth's forests are primary forests.

The mobility of animals makes them, as a group, better able to adjust to environmental variability than are plants.

Symbiosis involves the mutually beneficial relationship between members of different species.

The world zoogeographic regions map includes ONLY ________ animals.

The few trees in an area of midlatitude grassland biome probably would be ________.

The major biome characterized by the least trees is the ________.

Which statement is TRUE?

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

A blastocyst develops only when the environmental variables are favorable.

In plant succession, each successive community tends to be ________ than the previous one.

Which of the following characteristics is closely associated with mammals and birds but not other groups of animals?

Why don't the tundra biome nor the boreal forest biome appear in the Southern Hemisphere?