Exam 3 Review
Be sure to study questions from exams 1 and 2, pay
special attention to ones that you missed. You do not
want to get them wrong again.
1. This is an illustration of what kind of climate?
a. Urban heat island
b. Microclimate
c. Temperatuire inversion
d. a and b above
The following questions are a review only with example
questions. Understand that I will change these if I use
them on your exam.
2. One advantage to being a needleleaf tree is
a. You can photosynthesize more than a
broadleaf
b. You can photosynthesize all year
c. Your leaves are cheap
d. You can go dormant in times of stress
3. This plant is clearly coping with arid
conditions. It is a
a. drought evader
b. drought resistor
Welwitschia mirabilis, endemic to the Namib desert
4. A climate that never freezes, has short slightly dry
winters and long wet summers, and a mixed forest of
broadleaf evergreens and some broadleaf deciduous
trees is called
a. Am
b.Cs
c. Aw
d.Af
e. Cfa
5. In what climate type would you expect to find a tree with
a trunk like this?
a. Af
c. Csa
b. BS
d. Dfc
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6. The climate and vegetation description that best
matches the ET climate type is
a.Can freeze, long summer, never dry, broadleaf
deciduous forest
b.Never above freezing, no vegetation
c.Never freezes, never dry, multistoried broadleaf
evergreen forest
d.Long winter, needleleaf evergreen forest
e.Short time above freezing, no trees, grasses
and low herbs are present
8. If you were a needleleaf deciduous tree, in what
environment would you be a superior competitor in
the forest?
a.No stress, water and warmth all year
b.Plenty of rain during long summer, freezing
temperatures in winter
c.Never freezes but long dry period of about 5
months
10. Which of the following statements about needleleaf
evergreen trees is FALSE.
a.They have needlelike leaves that are cheap to
produce
b.They can photosynthesize all year round
c.They can shed their leaves and go dormant
during hard times
d.They need some water all year
e.They pay for their leaves on an “installment”
plan
7. This land looks like an example of
a. tropical rain forest
b. BS climate
c. desertification
d. southern deepwater swamp
9. This tree is the superior competitor under what conditions?
a. “A” climate type, saltwater
b. “C” climate type, saltwater
c. “C” climate type, freshwater
d. “D” climate type, freshwater
11. What climate type do you think this is?
a. Aw
c. Dfa
b. Cfb
d. ET
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12. From the video: in the frozen lands of the Arctic, the
plants lived
a.Inside the ice as algae
b.In the oceans as giant forests
c.Under the sand with tiny windowpane leaves
d.Underground as bulbs and tubers
14. What airmass dominates in the Cfb climate?
a.Continental polar
b.Continental tropical
c.Continental arctic
d.Marine tropical
e.Marine polar
16. The treeline separates what two major climate
types?
a.A and B
b.A and C
c.C and D
d.D and E
13. This picture was taken in April, what major climate
type?
A, B, C, D, E?
15. What biome/climate type?
a. Broadleaf evergreen, AF
b. Broadleaf deciduous, Cf
c. Needleleaf evergreen, Df
17. These are needleleaf evergreens. What climate type?
a. Am
c. Cfb
b. Cfa
d. Dfc
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18. In winter, the Csa climate is influenced by the
a.Subtropical High
b.Northeast Trade Winds
c.Polar front
d.Intertropical convergence zone
e.Polar Easterlies
20. Give the most likely location to find mangrove.
a.Anchorage, Alaska (61°N, 150°W)
b.Lake Charles, Louisiana (30°N, 93°W)
c.Stockholm, Sweden (59°N, 18°E)
d.Singapore (0° 110°E)
22. Which of the following is NOT an example of
drought evasion?
a.Conserving moisture by dropping leaves when
water is scarce and regrowing them when
water is available.
b.Having a seed that will only sprout after a
substantial rainfall
c.Spending most of your life as a seed
d.Completing your entire life cycle in only a few
months.
19. This plant form works well for
a. extreme heat
c. extreme drought
b. extreme cold
d. frequent fire
21. These carnivourous pitcher plants are superior
competitors at Splinter Hill bog north of Mobile because
a. the soil is poor and lacks nutrients
b. the soil is dry all year
c. the soil under the pine forest is rich in nutrients
23. The young trees coming in after the forest fire in
Yellowstone are an example of
a. competition
b. succession
c. climate change
d. desertification
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24. As conditions change from wet to dry in a C
climate, the vegetation changes from
a.Needleleaf evergreen to needleleaf deciduous
to succulents
b.Broadleaf deciduous to grassland to
xerophytes
c.Drought evaders to grasslands to broadleaf
evergreens
d.Broadleaf evergreens to broadleaf deciduous
to grasslands to xerophytes
25. What North American desert has this type vegetation?
a. Mojave
b. Great Basin
c. Sonoran
d. Chihuahuan
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