unit 8 review/practice

The U.N. F.A.O has demonstrated that forest loss has slowed but ________.

________ are replacing primary forests in much of southeast Asia

Autotrophs use _________ as a carbon source.

Mycorrhizae are a ____________ association between plants and ____________

Which of the following forestry practices would best conserve structural diversity?

The National Forest Management Act ________ national forest land.

Secondary forests ________.

A unique feature of the vertebrate eye, different than the Octopus eye, is that it

Which of the following harvesting methods is the most cost-efficient but has the greatest ecological impacts?

One hypothesis for the adaptive function of sexual reproduction is that multiple harmful mutations can be combined in a single individual and thus be more effectively eliminated by natural selection.

The kingdom with the biggest organism (single genotype) is

Mr. Smith has been hired to manage forest land owned by a private company. His goal is to manage it in the most sustainable way while still making a profit. At first, he manages the land using the concept of maximum sustainable yield. After a few years he realizes that ecosystem-based management is more appropriate for this particular swath of land. Mr. Smith is using ____.

The well established theory of the endosymbiotic origin of eukaryotic organelles describes the bacterial origin of mitochondria that specialize in ________ and chloroplasts that specialize in ___________.

Wilderness areas ________.

An interesting trend in bacterial evolution is that __________ tend to evolve from __________

Sexual reproduction involves the production of _________ gametes when diploid cells undergo a cell division called _________.

The "roadless rule" ________.

Bacteria

_____ are organizations that purchase land to preserve it in its natural condition.

The following statement about Artemisinin is FALSE

Of the fungi, Lichens are unusual because they are

Most commercial logging today takes place in ________.

The SLOSS dilemma involves controversy over ________.

Which of the following is not an ecosystem service provided by pristine forests?

What percentage of the world's land area is part of a preserve?

The Plant Kingdom

At current (2007) rates of consumption, and given current estimates of known reserves, the predicted length of time to exhaustion of world oil supplies is about ____ years.

Recombination is the mixing of genes from

The kingdom of organisms that includes many small, even single celled, organisms yet have cells with true nuclei containing DNA and various organelles is

UK researchers are investigating the potential of algae to absorb carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions by exploring as many of the roughly ____________ known species as possible

The forests in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from which your text book was made are ________.

The notion of a cleanly branching tree of life, where species are separate and divide to create new species, may not describe evolution in Prokaryotes very well, because of the following feature

Why is salvage logging not an environmentally responsible action to take?

Biosphere reserves are different from other protected areas because _____.

Two Kingdoms that include our most important decomposers AND pathogens are

When all the trees in a stand are planted at the same time they are called _____.

Most of the world's forests occur as ________.

Terrestrial plants are different than seaweeds in that they

Which approach to forest resource management strategy most closely mimics nature?

In our terminology, the Kingdom that includes two Domains is the