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#Question id: 9233


What is the biggest problem with selecting a site for a reserve?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. Making a proper selection is difficult because currently the environmental conditions of almost any site can change quickly.
  2. Keystone species are difficult to identify in potential reserve sites.
  3. Only lands that are not useful to human activities are available for reserves.
  4. Most of the best sites are inaccessible by land transportation, so making roads to them is often prohibitively expensive.
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#Question id: 11385

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following biomes is correctly paired with the description of its climate?

A) savanna-low temperature, precipitation uniform during the year

B) tundra-long summers, mild winters

C) Taiga-relatively short growing season, Low precipitation

D) temperate grasslands-relatively warm winters, most rainfall in summer

E) tropical forests-nearly constant day length and temperature

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#Question id: 11416

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following biomes spans the largest annual mean temperature range, but the narrowest mean precipitation range?

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#Question id: 11423

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Our ability to distinguish different biomes under similar conditions in different parts of the world depends primarily on which of the following factors that influence the distributions of growth forms?

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#Question id: 11424

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

In robert h. Whittaker's approach to relating terrestrial biomes and climatic variables, the principal biomes fall in a triangular area that does not include climates with __________.

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#Question id: 11425

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Walter's climate diagrams allow us to identify any months that have a water deficit. These are months in which:

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#Question id: 11426

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following biomes is associated with a mediterranean climate?