If You Conclude That Vegetation at Every Point on Earth

question 47

Multiple Choice

If you conclude that vegetation at every point on Earth exactly resembles the predicted biome distribution in a climograph, then ________.

• A) you are ignoring human land use changes or impacts, which have highly altered many regions within biomes
• B) the biome spanning the smallest combined ranges in precipitation and temperature is the tundra
• C) the biome most sensitive (in danger) from global warming is the desert
• D) you are ignoring the fact that local differences in soil, elevation, or topography can result in considerably different plant communities that are embedded within named biomes

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