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1

Which plants continued to increase in diversity in Glacier Bay even after a century of succession?
A)low shrubs
B)liverworts
C)mosses
D)lichens
E)all of the above
2

Succession research on Sycamore Creek suggests that invertebrates escaped devastating floods by finding refuge in the interstitial spaces of sand and gravel.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
3

A is a sequence of ages represented by study sites in an ecological experiment.
4

Research in Hawaii indicates that as nitrogen content increases in soils, they begin to lose nitrogen at a higher rate.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
5

Which of the following is NOT a phase of the biomass accumulation model?
A)steady state
B)biomass loss
C)aggradation
D)exponential growth
6

The dominance of late successional, long living, hardy species, such as red oak in a New England forest, is an example of the model of succession.
7

Old field succession and succession on volcanic and glacier substrates follow the facilitation model followed by the tolerance model in most cases.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
8

The interquartile range is created by the range of measurements between the ________ bound of the lower quartile and the ________ bond of highest quartile.
A)average; average
B)median; median
C)upper; lower
D)lower; upper





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