Ch.4 Reading (Week 1)

Question 1

what effects broad and local vegetation type (5)?

Answer 1

precipitation, temp (broad), soil, landform, and history (local)

Question 2

Trees use a great deal of water when….

Answer 2

precipitation is too low

Question 3

North America is controlled less by total yearly participation and more by…

Answer 3

seasonal distribution

Question 4

How much does the temperature differ in tropical forest?

Answer 4

no more than 5 degrees C

Question 5

What are two key characterizations of temperate forest?

Answer 5

-distinct winter
-precipitation concentrated in the winter and long growing seasons

Question 6

Boreal forest are home to… type of trees

Answer 6

hardwoods (birch, aspen, alder)

Question 7

What type of winters and summers do Boreal forest have?

Answer 7

temps falling below -40 degreesC (winter)
short, moist, and warm summers

Question 8

Deep supercooling

Answer 8

in plant tissues prevents intracellular freezing while limiting the degree of cellular dehydration

Question 9

Forest on high mountains are called

Answer 9

Montane

Question 10

Hopkins Bio geoclimatic Law

Answer 10

temp change over 1000 m in elevation is similar to that occurring of 5 degrees of latitude.

Question 11

How do trees in tropical forest do when drought last long

Answer 11

shed leaves

Question 12

What are the four types of tropical forest

Answer 12

evergreen tropical rainforest, seasonal rain forest, tropical semievergreen forest, and deciduous tropical forest

Question 13

Types of temperate forest…. (4)

Answer 13

moist conifer forest and evergreen broad leaved forest (rainfall concentrated in winter)
dry conifer forest, temperate broad leaved rainforest

Question 14

Mediterranean

Answer 14

Climate where precipation is concentrated in the winter and precipitation is around 1000mm/yr

Question 15

sclerophyllous

Answer 15

leaves of broad leaved trees

Question 16

What type of tree has a higher productivity than many tropical forest

Answer 16

Redwoods

Question 17

the three patterns of particular relevance to ecology and forestry are…

Answer 17

species diversity, distribution and cycling of essential elements, and productivity

Question 18

Where is there a higher concentration of mosquitos , lizards and amphibians but fungi do not follow this trend?

Answer 18

The equator
- diversity of plant and animals species drop sharply as one moves from tropics to higher latitudes

Question 19

Rapid decomposition in tropical forest is matches by…

Answer 19

rapid nutrient uptake

Question 20

What happens if migration of trees does does keep up with climate change

Answer 20

it leaves space for weedy species eventually declining and deaths of forest

Question 21

Holdridge Life Zone Classification

Answer 21

used to see how relating vegetation types to avg. annual temp and precipitation. (climate change)

Model is not perfect

Question 22

Forest that support more leaves than do other vegetation types require more…

Answer 22

water