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1. How do plants and animals differ in their ability to occupy habitats?

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 "plant succession".

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

8. Explain what a food chain is. Your answer must include the concepts of trophic level, primary producer, consumer and decomposer.

9. How do plant communities affect the local environment in which they are found?

10. What is “net biomass productivity” and what determines it? What types of environments produce high and low amounts of biomass productivity?