Unit 26 | Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

Symbiosis is identical to the terms:
a) vicariance
b) climax community
c) mutualism
d) amensalism
e) allogenic succession

Question 2:

Which of the following is not a biotic factor that affects the geographic dispersal of plants?
a) photosynthesis
b) mutualism
c) competition
d) amensalism
e) endemism

Question 3:

The green pigment of plants that assures the absorption of sunlight is called:
a) the respiration effect
b) the biomass gradient
c) the vicariant level
d) chlorophyll
e) verdantium

Question 4:

The total living organic plant matter of a given area is known as its:
a) highest trophic level
b) first trophic level
c) megatherm
d) hygrophytic quotient
e) biomass

Question 5:

Animals that eat herbivores are known as:
a) carnivores
b) allosauruses
c) autotrophic predators
d) mesotherms
e) there are no animals that eat herbivores

Question 6:

Which of the following is one of the types of plant succession:
a) autocyclogenic
b) autogenic
c) ecogenic
d) phytogenic
e) trophic herbogenic

Question 7:

The term allogenic applies to one of the three types of plant succession.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

Vicariance refers to the substitution of one plant type for another.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

Plants adapted to low heating levels of the atmosphere are called microtherms.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Trees that drop their leaves seasonally are known as deciduous.
a) True
b) False

Question 11:

The inhibition of one species in the geographic dispersal of another is called amensalism.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

A climax community can never be the first stage in a cyclic autogenic plant succession.
a) True
b) False

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