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#Question id: 13017

Which of the following statements best describes the effect of climate on biome distribution?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Knowledge of annual temperature and precipitation is sufficient to predict which biome will be found in an area.
  2. Fluctuation of  environmental variables is  not  important if  areas  have  the  same  annual temperature and precipitation means.
  3. It is not only the average climate that is important in determining biome distribution, but also the pattern of climatic variation.
  4. Temperate forests, coniferous forests, and grasslands all have the same mean annual   temperatures and precipitation.
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#Question id: 13170

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following events might you predict to occur if the tilt of Earth's axis relative to its plane of orbit was increased 33.5 degrees?
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#Question id: 13169

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following causes Earth's seasons?
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#Question id: 13168

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Use the following diagram from the text showing the spread of the cattle egret, Bulbulcus ibis, since its arrival in the New World, to answer the following question.


How would an ecologist likely explain the expansion of the cattle egret?
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#Question id: 13022

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

A certain species of pine tree survives only in scattered locations at elevations above 2,800 m in the western United States. To understand why this tree grows only in these specific places an ecologist should
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#Question id: 13020

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Experts in deer ecology generally agree that population sizes of deer that live in temperate climates are limited by winter snow. The deer congregate in ?yarding? areas under evergreen trees because venturing out to feed in winter is energetically too expensive when snowfall depths accumulate to above 40 cm. Deer often stay yarded until the spring thaw. Snow depth over 40 inches for more than 60 days results in high mortality due to starvation.  This observation best illustrates which of the following principles about factors that limit distribution of organisms?
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#Question id: 13019

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Air masses formed over the Pacific Ocean are moved by prevailing westerlies where they encounter extensive north- south mountain ranges, such as the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades. Which statement best describes the changes that these air masses undergo?