PLSC180 Exam 2 With Complete
Solution
Provisioning, cultural, supporting & regulating are categories of ________: the many and
varied ways humans benefit from properly functioning ecosystems - Answer Ecosystem
Services
The processes and material flows - inputs, outputs and feedback loops - that sustain
systems operation - Answer Metabolism
Previously developed sites that do have known or probable contamination that pose
threats to human or environmental health - Answer 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 - Answer
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? - Answer Rhizosphere
A reclamation of an abandoned surface quarry in Florida that affords golfers the
opportunity to play amidst successional piles of limestone tailings - Answer 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) - Answer True
An ecosystem is a stable, yet dynamic network of biotic and abiotic elements that
interact with one another (T/F) - Answer True
An association of plant species that has naturally evolved together as observed in a
particular geography at a moment in time - Answer Plant Community
Plants and other photosynthetic organisms that convert sunlight into biomass represent
the foundational trophic level in an ecosystem's food web - Answer 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 - Answer Native
Ornamentally-driven horticultural paradigms and entrenched 'norms' of culture and the
green industry negatively impact ecosystem function (T/F) - Answer True
This botanical garden in Austin, TX focuses on the public interpretation and research of
native plant communities and indigenous plants - Answer Ladybird Johnson Wildflower
, Center
The gradual process through which ecosystems and landscapes change and develop
over time, including species composition and biodiversity is called - Answer Succession
This regeneration of a 2,200 acre landfill in NYC demonstrates the tenant of embracing
dynamic processes (succession) and embracing indeterminacy - Answer Freshkills Park
A leading horticulturists and landscape designer of the 'new horticulture,' this individual
was a design consultant to the NYC High Line project - Answer Piet Oudolf
A topographically defined area of land where all surface water drains to a single point of
reference - Answer Watershed
Pollution that comes from identifiable, yet widespread land uses with uncontrolled
points of discharge, such as parking lots and construction sites - Answer Non Point
Source Pollution
The physical alteration of waterways and their contributing watersheds that disrupts
natural hydrological and ecological process is - Answer Hydromodification
Decreasing tree canopy and compacting soils would likely have the greatest impact on
which dimension of storm water runoff? - Answer Storm water quantity
An infrastructure approach that engages hydrologic processes of landscape and plants
to perform infrastructure functions, namely storm water mgmt. - Answer 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 - Answer Filter Strip
This landscape in London exercises a range of performances, including storm water
management wetlands, habitat areas and post-industrial reclamation - Answer 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 - Answer Nigel Dunnett
A planting strategy used by agricultural land managers to stabilize soils that may
otherwise be exposed to erosion and rebuild soil health - Answer Cover Cropping
previously developed sites that do not have known or probable contamination that pose
threats to human or environmental health - Answer Grayfield
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the industrial city of the 18-mid 20th
centuries? - Answer Decentralized and mobile workforce due to automobile ownership
and interstate infrastructure.
Which of the following are characteristics of the industrial city of the 18-mid 20th
centuries? - Answer Fordist model of manufacturing and clusters of complementary
Solution
Provisioning, cultural, supporting & regulating are categories of ________: the many and
varied ways humans benefit from properly functioning ecosystems - Answer Ecosystem
Services
The processes and material flows - inputs, outputs and feedback loops - that sustain
systems operation - Answer Metabolism
Previously developed sites that do have known or probable contamination that pose
threats to human or environmental health - Answer 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 - Answer
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? - Answer Rhizosphere
A reclamation of an abandoned surface quarry in Florida that affords golfers the
opportunity to play amidst successional piles of limestone tailings - Answer 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) - Answer True
An ecosystem is a stable, yet dynamic network of biotic and abiotic elements that
interact with one another (T/F) - Answer True
An association of plant species that has naturally evolved together as observed in a
particular geography at a moment in time - Answer Plant Community
Plants and other photosynthetic organisms that convert sunlight into biomass represent
the foundational trophic level in an ecosystem's food web - Answer 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 - Answer Native
Ornamentally-driven horticultural paradigms and entrenched 'norms' of culture and the
green industry negatively impact ecosystem function (T/F) - Answer True
This botanical garden in Austin, TX focuses on the public interpretation and research of
native plant communities and indigenous plants - Answer Ladybird Johnson Wildflower
, Center
The gradual process through which ecosystems and landscapes change and develop
over time, including species composition and biodiversity is called - Answer Succession
This regeneration of a 2,200 acre landfill in NYC demonstrates the tenant of embracing
dynamic processes (succession) and embracing indeterminacy - Answer Freshkills Park
A leading horticulturists and landscape designer of the 'new horticulture,' this individual
was a design consultant to the NYC High Line project - Answer Piet Oudolf
A topographically defined area of land where all surface water drains to a single point of
reference - Answer Watershed
Pollution that comes from identifiable, yet widespread land uses with uncontrolled
points of discharge, such as parking lots and construction sites - Answer Non Point
Source Pollution
The physical alteration of waterways and their contributing watersheds that disrupts
natural hydrological and ecological process is - Answer Hydromodification
Decreasing tree canopy and compacting soils would likely have the greatest impact on
which dimension of storm water runoff? - Answer Storm water quantity
An infrastructure approach that engages hydrologic processes of landscape and plants
to perform infrastructure functions, namely storm water mgmt. - Answer 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 - Answer Filter Strip
This landscape in London exercises a range of performances, including storm water
management wetlands, habitat areas and post-industrial reclamation - Answer 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 - Answer Nigel Dunnett
A planting strategy used by agricultural land managers to stabilize soils that may
otherwise be exposed to erosion and rebuild soil health - Answer Cover Cropping
previously developed sites that do not have known or probable contamination that pose
threats to human or environmental health - Answer Grayfield
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the industrial city of the 18-mid 20th
centuries? - Answer Decentralized and mobile workforce due to automobile ownership
and interstate infrastructure.
Which of the following are characteristics of the industrial city of the 18-mid 20th
centuries? - Answer Fordist model of manufacturing and clusters of complementary
