PLSC180 Exam 2 with Complete Solutions
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Infrastructure
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infrastructure functions, namely storm water mgmt.
______
2
humans benefit from properly functioning ecosystems
This botanical garden in Austin, TX focuses on the public interpretation and research of native plant
3
The biologically-active zone around plant roots where non-point source pollutants carried in runoff
4
Most interior plants may be less effective at improving interior air quality because air does not pass
through which zone of a plants environment?
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Terms in this set (65)
, Provisioning, cultural, supporting & Ecosystem Services
regulating are categories of ______ the
many and varied ways humans benefit from
properly functioning ecosystems
The processes and material flows - inputs, Metabolism
outputs and feedback loops - that sustain
systems operation
Previously developed sites that do have Brownfield
known or probable contamination that
pose threats to human or environmental
health
The use of living plants to clean soil, air Phytoremediation
and water contaminated with hazardous
materials to reduce or eliminate harm to
human + environment health
The biologically-active zone around plant Rhizosphere
roots where non-point source pollutants
carried in runoff may be metabolized in
storm water mgmt. features
Most interior plants may be less effective at
improving interior air quality because air
does not pass through which zone of a
plants environment?
A reclamation of an abandoned surface Streamsong
quarry in Florida that affords golfers the
opportunity to play amidst successional
piles of limestone tailings
Detroit Future City is a framework that uses True
abandoned lots in a post industrial city as
strategy for social, economic and
ecological production (T/F)
An ecosystem is a stable, yet dynamic True
network of biotic and abiotic elements that
interact with one another (T/F)
An association of plant species that has Plant Community
naturally evolved together as observed in a
particular geography at a moment in time
Plants and other photosynthetic organisms Primary Producers
that convert sunlight into biomass
represent the foundational trophic level in
an ecosystem's food web
When these type of plants constitute the Native
primary producer, their foliage is food for
primary consumers and wildlife that have
co-evolved with them
Ornamentally-driven horticultural True
paradigms and entrenched 'norms' of
culture and the green industry negatively
impact ecosystem function (T/F)
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Practice questions for this set
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Infrastructure
Choose an answer
1
infrastructure functions, namely storm water mgmt.
______
2
humans benefit from properly functioning ecosystems
This botanical garden in Austin, TX focuses on the public interpretation and research of native plant
3
The biologically-active zone around plant roots where non-point source pollutants carried in runoff
4
Most interior plants may be less effective at improving interior air quality because air does not pass
through which zone of a plants environment?
Don't know?
Terms in this set (65)
, Provisioning, cultural, supporting & Ecosystem Services
regulating are categories of ______ the
many and varied ways humans benefit from
properly functioning ecosystems
The processes and material flows - inputs, Metabolism
outputs and feedback loops - that sustain
systems operation
Previously developed sites that do have Brownfield
known or probable contamination that
pose threats to human or environmental
health
The use of living plants to clean soil, air Phytoremediation
and water contaminated with hazardous
materials to reduce or eliminate harm to
human + environment health
The biologically-active zone around plant Rhizosphere
roots where non-point source pollutants
carried in runoff may be metabolized in
storm water mgmt. features
Most interior plants may be less effective at
improving interior air quality because air
does not pass through which zone of a
plants environment?
A reclamation of an abandoned surface Streamsong
quarry in Florida that affords golfers the
opportunity to play amidst successional
piles of limestone tailings
Detroit Future City is a framework that uses True
abandoned lots in a post industrial city as
strategy for social, economic and
ecological production (T/F)
An ecosystem is a stable, yet dynamic True
network of biotic and abiotic elements that
interact with one another (T/F)
An association of plant species that has Plant Community
naturally evolved together as observed in a
particular geography at a moment in time
Plants and other photosynthetic organisms Primary Producers
that convert sunlight into biomass
represent the foundational trophic level in
an ecosystem's food web
When these type of plants constitute the Native
primary producer, their foliage is food for
primary consumers and wildlife that have
co-evolved with them
Ornamentally-driven horticultural True
paradigms and entrenched 'norms' of
culture and the green industry negatively
impact ecosystem function (T/F)
