Which of these has been the most transformed and rearranged by human interference_______?
a. water.
b. soil.
c. plants.
d. air.
e. all of the above.
c.
Midlatitude grasslands:
a. great land for farming and ranching.
b. lousy agricultural potential and d.
c. not much trees and a and e.
d. trees.
e. where the buffalo used to roam.
c. not much trees and a and e.
Which is false:
a. desert = coyote
b. tropical savanna= Bengal tiger
c. tropical deciduous forest = Bengal tiger
d. boreal forest= moose
e. tropical rain forest= creepers, crawlers, climbers, flyers
e
Another term for tropical rainforest biomes is:
B.
Midlatitude deciduous forest:
D.
Which is false:
B.
Vegetationadapted to summer dtought and fires and rapid community recovery characterize the _____ biome.
a. desert
b. midlatitude deciduous forest
c. tundra
d. boreal forest
e. Mediterranean woodland and shrub
e.
A vegetation type dominated by coneferous needle-leaf evergreen trees(spruce, fir, pine) in a subarctic climate is the ___ biome.
B.
Which is false:
C.
Which is false:
A.
Which is true:
A.
a slope struck by a low sun angle has relatively low evaporation and thus suppors a relatively luxuriant vegetation growth and is known as a (a) ____slope.
B.
Small leave, light colors, close to ground, thorns and halophytic are just some of the adaptations of ___ plants.
A.
A large component of the world's selva is located in ____.
A.
Which is false:
D.
Chaparral ______.
E.
Which is false:
C.
Crater Lake, Oregon, is an example of volcanic_____.
E.
Since the 1960s, the mechanism responsible for continental plate tectonics(drift) has been identified and generally agreed to be___
C.
divergence, convergence, lateral:
C.
A simple symmetrical downfold, upfold:
E.
the totality of material ejected from a volcano, including liquid material, rock fragments, solidified lava blobs, ashes and dust is termed ______.
A.
A crustal block which is downthrown with a steep fault scarp on both sides is a/an exremely long one is a:
C.
the first comprehensive theory of continental drift was propounded by ___.
D.
Columbia plateau, Hawaii, Crater Lake.
B.
San Andreas fault, Cascades.
B.
Which of the following is NOT an intrusive igneous landform?
C.
Usually, the largest form of ingneous intrusion is a ______.
C.
Which is true: deductive reasoning
A.
normal, reverse, thrust, lateral
D.
Which is false:
B.
Water collected insmall bodies along the recently active fault line form ____.
A.
An uplift of a block of land between two parallel faults is a ____.
D.
The Himalayas were formed by crumpling of plate edges in a ____ zone.
D.
Shield, cinder, strato, plug:
B.
wich is true:
C.
which is true:
A.
which is false:
D.
which is false:
D.
In arid lands, the intricately gullied, steep, fine-grained, non-vegetated and barren terains is called
E.
When two or more alluvial fans coalesce to form an alluvial apron ____.
B.
The main dune form in most deserts is crescent shaped and is migrating across a non-sand surface; it is called a(n) __.
A.
Which is true:
A.
The best example of the remnant of a Pleistocene lake in the U.S.A. is _____.
E.
Africa's main example of an exotic river is the ____.
B.
Varaitions in rock type and structure affect the slope and shape of lanforms. These landforms are produced by ___.
E.
which is false:
B.
During recent geologic time, Death Valley was occupied by a large lake called ____.