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PLSC180 Exam 2 Questions And Answers
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Provisioning, cultural, supporting & regulating are categories of ________: the many and varied
ways humans benefit from properly functioning ecosystems - Answers✔Ecosystem Services
The processes and material flows - inputs, outputs and feedback loops - that sustain systems
operation - Answers✔Metabolism
Previously developed sites that do have known or probable contamination that pose threats to
human or environmental health - Answers✔Brownfield
The use of living plants to clean soil, air and water contaminated with hazardous materials to
reduce or eliminate harm to human + environment health - Answers✔Phytoremediation
The biologically-active zone around plant 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? - Answers✔Rhizosphere
A reclamation of an abandoned surface quarry in Florida that affords golfers the opportunity to
play amidst successional piles of limestone tailings - Answers✔Streamsong
Detroit Future City is a framework that uses abandoned lots in a post industrial city as strategy
for social, economic and ecological production (T/F) - Answers✔True
An ecosystem is a stable, yet dynamic network of biotic and abiotic elements that interact with
one another (T/F) - Answers✔True
An association of plant species that has naturally evolved together as observed in a particular
geography at a moment in time - Answers✔Plant Community
Plants and other photosynthetic organisms that convert sunlight into biomass represent the
foundational trophic level in an ecosystem's food web - Answers✔Primary Producers
When these type of plants constitute the primary producer, their foliage is food for primary
consumers and wildlife that have co-evolved with them - Answers✔Native
Ornamentally-driven horticultural paradigms and entrenched 'norms' of culture and the green
industry negatively impact ecosystem function (T/F) - Answers✔True
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This botanical garden in Austin, TX focuses on the public interpretation and research of native
plant communities and indigenous plants - Answers✔Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center
The gradual process through which ecosystems and landscapes change and develop over time,
including species composition and biodiversity is called - Answers✔Succession
This regeneration of a 2,200 acre landfill in NYC demonstrates the tenant of embracing dynamic
processes (succession) and embracing indeterminacy - Answers✔Freshkills Park
A leading horticulturists and landscape designer of the 'new horticulture,' this individual was a
design consultant to the NYC High Line project - Answers✔Piet Oudolf
A topographically defined area of land where all surface water drains to a single point of
reference - Answers✔Watershed
Pollution that comes from identifiable, yet widespread land uses with uncontrolled points of
discharge, such as parking lots and construction sites - Answers✔Non Point Source Pollution
The physical alteration of waterways and their contributing watersheds that disrupts natural
hydrological and ecological process is - Answers✔Hydromodification
Decreasing tree canopy and compacting soils would likely have the greatest impact on which
dimension of storm water runoff? - Answers✔Storm water quantity
An infrastructure approach that engages hydrologic processes of landscape and plants to perform
infrastructure functions, namely storm water mgmt. - Answers✔Green Infrastructure
A feature used by golf courses and other land uses to filter excess nutrients and other pollutants
in runoff and stabilizing banks of receiving waters - Answers✔Filter Strip
This landscape in London exercises a range of performances, including storm water management
wetlands, habitat areas and post-industrial reclamation - Answers✔Queen Elizabeth Olympic
Park
This individual was a horticultural consultant to QEOP, and is know world-wide for his planting
designs that perform and appeal to cultural aesthetics - Answers✔Nigel Dunnett
A planting strategy used by agricultural land managers to stabilize soils that may otherwise be
exposed to erosion and rebuild soil health - Answers✔Cover Cropping
previously developed sites that do not have known or probable contamination that pose threats to
human or environmental health - Answers✔Grayfield
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the industrial city of the 18-mid 20th centuries?
- Answers✔Decentralized and mobile workforce due to automobile ownership and interstate
infrastructure.
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PLSC180 Exam 2 Questions And Answers
100% Verified.
Provisioning, cultural, supporting & regulating are categories of ________: the many and varied
ways humans benefit from properly functioning ecosystems - Answers✔Ecosystem Services
The processes and material flows - inputs, outputs and feedback loops - that sustain systems
operation - Answers✔Metabolism
Previously developed sites that do have known or probable contamination that pose threats to
human or environmental health - Answers✔Brownfield
The use of living plants to clean soil, air and water contaminated with hazardous materials to
reduce or eliminate harm to human + environment health - Answers✔Phytoremediation
The biologically-active zone around plant 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? - Answers✔Rhizosphere
A reclamation of an abandoned surface quarry in Florida that affords golfers the opportunity to
play amidst successional piles of limestone tailings - Answers✔Streamsong
Detroit Future City is a framework that uses abandoned lots in a post industrial city as strategy
for social, economic and ecological production (T/F) - Answers✔True
An ecosystem is a stable, yet dynamic network of biotic and abiotic elements that interact with
one another (T/F) - Answers✔True
An association of plant species that has naturally evolved together as observed in a particular
geography at a moment in time - Answers✔Plant Community
Plants and other photosynthetic organisms that convert sunlight into biomass represent the
foundational trophic level in an ecosystem's food web - Answers✔Primary Producers
When these type of plants constitute the primary producer, their foliage is food for primary
consumers and wildlife that have co-evolved with them - Answers✔Native
Ornamentally-driven horticultural paradigms and entrenched 'norms' of culture and the green
industry negatively impact ecosystem function (T/F) - Answers✔True
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This botanical garden in Austin, TX focuses on the public interpretation and research of native
plant communities and indigenous plants - Answers✔Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center
The gradual process through which ecosystems and landscapes change and develop over time,
including species composition and biodiversity is called - Answers✔Succession
This regeneration of a 2,200 acre landfill in NYC demonstrates the tenant of embracing dynamic
processes (succession) and embracing indeterminacy - Answers✔Freshkills Park
A leading horticulturists and landscape designer of the 'new horticulture,' this individual was a
design consultant to the NYC High Line project - Answers✔Piet Oudolf
A topographically defined area of land where all surface water drains to a single point of
reference - Answers✔Watershed
Pollution that comes from identifiable, yet widespread land uses with uncontrolled points of
discharge, such as parking lots and construction sites - Answers✔Non Point Source Pollution
The physical alteration of waterways and their contributing watersheds that disrupts natural
hydrological and ecological process is - Answers✔Hydromodification
Decreasing tree canopy and compacting soils would likely have the greatest impact on which
dimension of storm water runoff? - Answers✔Storm water quantity
An infrastructure approach that engages hydrologic processes of landscape and plants to perform
infrastructure functions, namely storm water mgmt. - Answers✔Green Infrastructure
A feature used by golf courses and other land uses to filter excess nutrients and other pollutants
in runoff and stabilizing banks of receiving waters - Answers✔Filter Strip
This landscape in London exercises a range of performances, including storm water management
wetlands, habitat areas and post-industrial reclamation - Answers✔Queen Elizabeth Olympic
Park
This individual was a horticultural consultant to QEOP, and is know world-wide for his planting
designs that perform and appeal to cultural aesthetics - Answers✔Nigel Dunnett
A planting strategy used by agricultural land managers to stabilize soils that may otherwise be
exposed to erosion and rebuild soil health - Answers✔Cover Cropping
previously developed sites that do not have known or probable contamination that pose threats to
human or environmental health - Answers✔Grayfield
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the industrial city of the 18-mid 20th centuries?
- Answers✔Decentralized and mobile workforce due to automobile ownership and interstate
infrastructure.
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