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1. Compare and contrast the tropical rain forests and the tropical monsoon forests.

2. What is photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration?

3. What is the difference between a habitat and niche?

4. Which vegetation biome has the largest annual amount of net primary production?

5. How do plants adapt to extreme aridity?

6. Describe the concept of "ecological succession".

7. What are the limiting factors to growth in the low latitudes? High Latitudes?

8. What impact do broadleaf deciduous trees have on the nutrient status of soils?

9. What are some of the causes and consequences of tropical deforestation?

10. Describe how the vegetation and climate would change going from the Arctic coast of Canada to the Gulf Coast of the United States along the 90th meridian.

11. What limits the height of growth of vegetation in the Tundra?