PLSC180 MENTI REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Previously developed sites that do have known or probable contamination that pose threats to human
or environmental health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Brownfield
Previously developed sites that do not have known or probable contamination that pose threats to
human or environmental health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Grayfield
The processes and material flows - inputs, outputs and feedback loops - that sustain systems operation -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Metabolism
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the industrial city of the 18th - mid 20th centuries? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Decentralized and mobile workforce due to automobile ownership and highway
infrastructure
Which of the following are challenges posed to communities and the environment by post-industrial
landscapes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅All of the above (Lost economic production of former industry and
supporting businesses, Lost social structure that was formerly provided for workers, Threats to human
and environmental health, particularly groundwater contamination, Expensive costs for site cleanup or
traditional site redevelopment)
Which of the following projects is an example of the 'industrial sublime? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord
A reclamation of an abandoned surface quarry in Florida that affords golfers the opportunity to play
amidst successional piles of limestone tailings - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Streamsong
Detroit Future City is a framework that uses abandoned lots in a post industrial city as strategy for new
social, economic and ecological production - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
The use of living plants to clean soil, air and water contaminated with hazardous materials to reduce or
eliminate harm to human + environment health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Phytoremediation
, The region of the soil around plant roots in which soil chemistry and microbiology is influenced by root
growth, respiration and nutrient exchange is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rhizosphere
Materials released by plant roots, such as enzymes, proteins, sugars and other compounds that support
healthy populations of microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Exudates
An ecosystem is a stable, yet dynamic network of biotic and abiotic elements that interact with one
another - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Plants and other photosynthetic organisms that convert sunlight into biomass represent the
foundational trophic level in an ecosystem's food web - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Primary Producers
The many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and properly-
functioning ecosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ecosystem Services
An event in time that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure, and changes resources,
substrate availability, or physical environment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Disturbance
A lack of connectivity and continuity of wildlife habitat in a given environment - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Fragmentation
Ornamentally-driven horticultural paradigms and entrenched 'norms' of culture and the green industry
negatively impact ecosystem function - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
When these type of plants constitute the primary producer, their foliage is food for primary consumers
and wildlife that have co-evolved with them - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Native
All insects in a landscape are pests that require management and/or elimination - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False
In taking a contemporary view of the role of landscape in culture, we will conceptualize landscape as -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Place, Idea and Strategy
Previously developed sites that do have known or probable contamination that pose threats to human
or environmental health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Brownfield
Previously developed sites that do not have known or probable contamination that pose threats to
human or environmental health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Grayfield
The processes and material flows - inputs, outputs and feedback loops - that sustain systems operation -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Metabolism
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the industrial city of the 18th - mid 20th centuries? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Decentralized and mobile workforce due to automobile ownership and highway
infrastructure
Which of the following are challenges posed to communities and the environment by post-industrial
landscapes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅All of the above (Lost economic production of former industry and
supporting businesses, Lost social structure that was formerly provided for workers, Threats to human
and environmental health, particularly groundwater contamination, Expensive costs for site cleanup or
traditional site redevelopment)
Which of the following projects is an example of the 'industrial sublime? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord
A reclamation of an abandoned surface quarry in Florida that affords golfers the opportunity to play
amidst successional piles of limestone tailings - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Streamsong
Detroit Future City is a framework that uses abandoned lots in a post industrial city as strategy for new
social, economic and ecological production - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
The use of living plants to clean soil, air and water contaminated with hazardous materials to reduce or
eliminate harm to human + environment health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Phytoremediation
, The region of the soil around plant roots in which soil chemistry and microbiology is influenced by root
growth, respiration and nutrient exchange is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rhizosphere
Materials released by plant roots, such as enzymes, proteins, sugars and other compounds that support
healthy populations of microorganisms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Exudates
An ecosystem is a stable, yet dynamic network of biotic and abiotic elements that interact with one
another - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Plants and other photosynthetic organisms that convert sunlight into biomass represent the
foundational trophic level in an ecosystem's food web - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Primary Producers
The many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and properly-
functioning ecosystems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ecosystem Services
An event in time that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure, and changes resources,
substrate availability, or physical environment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Disturbance
A lack of connectivity and continuity of wildlife habitat in a given environment - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Fragmentation
Ornamentally-driven horticultural paradigms and entrenched 'norms' of culture and the green industry
negatively impact ecosystem function - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
When these type of plants constitute the primary producer, their foliage is food for primary consumers
and wildlife that have co-evolved with them - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Native
All insects in a landscape are pests that require management and/or elimination - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False
In taking a contemporary view of the role of landscape in culture, we will conceptualize landscape as -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Place, Idea and Strategy
