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#Question id: 9168


Which of the following statements best describes the interaction between fire and ecosystems?

#9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. The likelihood of a wildfire occurring in a given ecosystem is highly predictable over the short term.

  2. Many kinds of plants and plant communities have adapted to frequent fires.
  3. The suppression of forest fires by humans has prevented certain communities, such as grasslands, from reaching their climax stage.

  4. Chaparral communities have evolved to the extent that they rarely burn