Multiple Choice Quiz


1	Soil is:
		A)	dynamic
		B)	organic
		C)	inorganic
		D)	stratified
		E)	all of the above


2	Restoring the guanacaste meant:
		A)	identifying a ghost herbivore
		B)	frequent trips by Janzen to New Zealand for comparative studies
		C)	improving agricultural practices that had removed nitrogen
		D)	learning how alarm calls could protect juveniles


3	There is a broad symmetry between:
		A)	air circulation cells across the equator
		B)	the tilt of the earth and direction of rainfall
		C)	mean annual rainfall and mean annual temperature
		D)	the land area above the equator and below it


4	Characteristics of tropical rain forests include:
		A)	being extremely hot
		B)	soils enriched in organic matter
		C)	variable weather
		D)	a cathedral-like structure


5	Tropical dry forests are not found in:
		A)	the United States
		B)	Africa
		C)	Brazil
		D)	Australia


6	Modern savanna carnivores include:
		A)	kangaroos
		B)	sloths
		C)	humans
		D)	crossbills


7	Which is not a desert?
		A)	Fynbos
		B)	Atacama
		C)	Gobi
		D)	Sonoran


8	Precipitation in deserts is:
		A)	predictable, but low
		B)	usually less than evaporation and transpiration
		C)	gentle
		D)	unnecessary


9	Grassland organisms include those that are:
		A)	fast
		B)	social
		C)	burrowers
		D)	airborne predators
		E)	all of the above


10	Temperate forests are found:
		A)	between 20-30 degrees latitude
		B)	between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
		C)	between 40-50 degrees latitude
		D)	only in the Northern Hemisphere


11	True or False: Tundra and taiga are equivalent.
		A)	True
		B)	False


12	True or False: Humans have increased the extent of desert biomes.
		A)	True
		B)	False


13	True or False: Increased radiant energy available to organisms at high latitudes is called solifluction.
		A)	True
		B)	False


14	True or False: There is a correspondence between latitudinal and altitudinal life zones.
		A)	True
		B)	False


15	True or False: One can convert degrees F to degrees C by subtracting 32 and dividing by 1.8.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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