The geographic study of living organisms is?
Biogeography
According to the concept of vertical zonation, what is the counterpart of changes in altitude?
Latitude
What is the total complex of plant and animal life in an area?
Biota
Currently, the greatest rate of deforestation of the tropical rainforest is on the continent of?
South America
Concerning the biosphere, the geographic viewpoint is most often concerned with?
Ecosystems
Which of the following is a plant that is exotic to Florida and has had disastrous environmental consequences?
Hydrilla
The present binomial system of biological classification was devised by?
Carolus Linnaeus
What is not one of the world's biomes?
Ice Field
The boundary between middle latitude forest and middle latitude grassland is most closely related to the concept of the?
Ecotone
Plants which survive seasonal climatic fluctuations from year to year are?
Perennials
The plant type that carries its seeds in cones is the?
Gymnosperm
Plants introduced into new habitats in which they were not originally raised are?
Exotic
Both steppe and tundra vegetation zones have what in common?
Absence of trees
Plants that live above ground and out of contact with the soil, usually growing on trees or shrubs are?
Epiphytes
The richest assemblage of flora and fauna outside the tropics are in ?
The Midlatitude deciduous forest biome
Some of the spore-bearing plants are termed?
Pteridophytes
These plants perish during times of climatic stress?
Annuals
A vegetation of type dominated by coniferous needle-leaf evergreen trees is the?
boreal forest
Along with a few conifer species, this type of plant has dominated Earth for the last 50 or 60 million years?
Angiosperms
Plants adapted to environments with surplus moisture are called?
Hygrophytic
The classic example of the effects of the environment on a species is shown by what?
The Size of ears on a fox
Most of the eastern USA was originally covered with?
Savanna
What is a natural but variable sequential change in vegetation pattern?
Succession
What is most associated with environmental equilibrium in a vegetation community?
Climax vegetation
What is a biome adapted to summer fires and rapid vegetative recovery?
Mediterranean Woodland
A floristic association dominated by tall grasslands and found in the middle latitudes is?
Wetlands
Xerophytes are plants of which region?
Desert
Savannas usually include some trees dotting the landscape. This type of savanna is known as ?
Park savannas
Most of the "big game" mammals in Africa are naturally adapted to the
Tropical Savanna Biome
A slope struck by a low sun angle has relatively low evaporation and thus supports a relatively luxuriant vegetation growth and is known as ?
Ubac slope
The Linnaean classification system is based mainly on ?
Anatomical similarities
Vegetation growing alongside streams is termed?
Riparian
In the tropical deciduous forest, trees shed their leaves because of a short but pronounced?
Dry season
Which country has the largest expanse of tropical rainforest?
Brazil
What is one of the features distinguishing mammals from all other groups?
True Hair
An alternate term for tropical rainforest biomes is?
Selva
Ungulates are?
Hoofed animals
In the interior of which biome would you find the aroma of mold and decomposition, has high humidity and much plant litter on the forest floor
Tropical Rainforest
Which of the following are not vertebrates?
Arthropods
The egg-laying mammals of the Australian region are the?
Monotremes
What is the arrangement in which two dissimilar organisms live together?
Symbiosis
The classical definition of world zoogeographic regions is credited to the 19th century British naturalist?
A.R. Wallace
Most North America , including the USA and Canada, lies within?
Nearctic zoogeographic realm
A large component of the world's selva is located in?
Central Africa
Which zoogeographic region covers most of Asia?
Palearctic
The zoogeographic region dominated by flightless birds is the?
New Zealand
Which of the following facilitated the interchange of animals between the Nearctic and Palearctic zoogeographic regions?
The Bering Land Bridge
By far, the zoogeographic region with the most distinctive fauna is ?
The Australian region
Trees of the genus Eucalyptus dominate the vegetation of?
Australia
The South American continent falls within the?
Neotropical zoogeographic region