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1________ is the study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and their interactions with their environment.


2List four physical factors that affect plant communities.


3Order these plant communities from least diverse to most diverse:
tropical rain forest, prairie, desert salt flat


4How do the qualitative community assessment and quantitative community assessment differ in today's lab?


5In the quantitative community assessment, what method will you use to count plants?


6List the four parameters you will use to quantify the importance of different plant species in a plant community using your transect data.


7________ is the interaction among individuals seeking a scarce common resource.


8Differentiate between interspecific and intraspecific competition.


9The most abundant plants always have the greatest biomass in a plant community.
A)True
B)False


10________ is a form of competition involving the inhibition of a plant's germination or growth by exposure to compounds produced by another plant.
A)Chemopathy
B)Chemotrophy
C)Allelopathy
D)Allometry





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