Geography Test 3

Front 1

In the language of the food chain herbivorous animals are called

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Primary consumers

Front 2

Which components are necessary for photosynthesis to occur

Back 2

Carbon dioxide light and water

Front 3

Plant decomposition releases blank into the atmosphere

Back 3

Carbon dioxide

Front 4

Net primary productivity is greatest on land.

Back 4

In the tropics

Front 5

According to the food chain concept it takes blank kilograms of plankton to make one kilogram weight gain for human

Back 5

1,000

Front 6

Animal wastes on the ground form a part of the ____ cycle

Back 6

Nitrogen

Front 7

Over the last century and a half the main source of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has been

Back 7

Burning of fossil fuels

Front 8

Which of the following is a key environmental constraints on biota

Back 8

Temperature, light, soil, moisture

Front 9

Which of the following is another term for tropical rainforest

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Selva

Front 10

Animals that eat plants are

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Herbivores

Front 11

Plants adapted to environments with surplus moisture are called

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Hygrophytic

Front 12

No other element of the physical landscape has been so transformed by human interference as the

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Plants

Front 13

The richest assemblage of flora and fauna outside the tropics are in the

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Midlatitude and deciduous forest

Front 14

Plants which survive seasonal climatic fluctuations from year to year are

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Perennials

Front 15

The transfer of moisture from plant leaves to atmosphere is

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Transpiration

Front 16

The major biome characterized by relative absence of trees is the

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Tundra, steppe, savanna, desert

Front 17

Plants that live above ground and out of Contact with the soil, usually growing on trees or shrubs are

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Epiphytes

Front 18

A ____ is a natural but variable sequential change in vegetation patterns

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Succession

Front 19

According to the concept of vertical zonation, changes in ____ are the counterpart of changes in altitude

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Latitude

Front 20

In Brasil the most pressing problem in its tropical rain forest region seems to be

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Rapid deforestation

Front 21

The soils characterized by plentiful partly decayed plant materials are

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Histosols

Front 22

Based on the pH scale soils are neutral at

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7.0

Front 23

The pedogenic regime associated with the tropical moist climates is

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Laterization

Front 24

Mollisols and ____ are the two most agriculturally productive soil orders

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Alfisols

Front 25

The measure of a soil's capacity to hold water and air is called

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Porosity

Front 26

____ is a soil texture in which none of the three main soil separates dominates the other two

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Loam

Front 27

The smallest sized pieces of soil are

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Clays

Front 28

Mature tropical soils are generally noteworthy of their

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Red color

Front 29

Air with anise oil is usually highly saturated and rich in

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Carbon dioxide

Front 30

In terms of topography the deepest soils

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Are on flat land

Front 31

Igneous rocks deposited on the surface and then cooled are known as

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Extrusive

Front 32

The view point that Past processes are the same as a present ones which created our present land surface is know as

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Uniformitarianism

Front 33

An inner segment of the earth which is rigid and dense and solid and lies directly beneath the Moho is called the

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Mantle

Front 34

When subjected to metamorphism limestone usually become

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Marble

Front 35

In the formation of igneous rocks large crystal size is closely related to

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Slow cooling

Front 36

The proof for the long idea of drifting continents came in the form of

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Analysis of magnetic and seismic patterns

Front 37

The inferential knowledge concerning the nature of the interior of the Earth has been accumulated by

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NOT gravity studies, lunar cycles, seismic wave analysis,or computer modeling

Front 38

Most processes which shape topography are

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Very slow

Front 39

Crustal movements of various kinds in the Earth's crust are collectively called

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Tectonic activity

Front 40

The plates in plate tectonics are in the

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Lithosphere

Front 41

The original large continental mass containing all of the present continits prior to separation millions of years ago has been named

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Pangea

Front 42

In folded terrain a simple symmetrical downfold is termed in a

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Syncline

Front 43

Since the 1960 the cause of plate tectonics has been identified to be

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Convection

Front 44

The first comprehensive theory of continental drift was pronounced by

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Wegener

Front 45

Wagner's early proposal of continental drift was not taken seriously because of his

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Failure to provide a plausible cause

Front 46

Which of the following refers to the surface of the earth directly above the center of an earthquake

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Epicenter

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In earthquakes P waves

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Are faster than S waves

Front 48

On the Richter scale very large earthquakes are assigned the number of

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7 or above

Front 49

The Pacific Ring of Fire refers to the

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Volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean

Front 50

Shield volcanoes are blank than composite volcanoes

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Wider

Front 51

Explain how the patterns of volcanoes and earthquakes are related to plate tectonics

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The majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur along plate boundaries where the different plates interact with each other

Front 52

Contrast the shape structure and formation of composite and shield volcanoes

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Composite volcanoes are tall conical shape with layers of Ash and lava. shield volcanoes are not very tall and look like flat Mountains

Front 53

Explain the struggle between the internal and external processes in shaping Earth's surface

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The rock cycle explains the relationship between Earth internal and external processes and relate to the formation of the major rock groups to external and internal processes

Front 54

Describe the current world situation regarding the removal of rainforest vegetation highlight environmental concerns associated with this deforestation

Back 54

More than half of the world's animals live in the rainforest many insects are also found in the tropical rainforest a number of these creatures are endangered. with each year thousands of acres of forest are destroyed destroying the animals homes and food sources

Front 55

Describe the current world situation regarding the removal of rainforest vegetation highlight environmental concerns associated with this deforestation

Back 55

More than half of the world's animals live in the rainforest many insects are also found in the tropical rainforest a number of these creatures are endangered. with each year thousands of acres of forest are destroyed destroying the animals homes and food sources

Front 56

How do plants create carbohydrates

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Photosynthesis they use co2 and water and sunlight to create glucose glucose is converted to Other carbohydrates