Concerning the production of crops in the rainforest (tropical forest) biome, wh

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Concerning the production of crops in the rainforest (tropical forest) biome, which of the following statements is false?

A. Nutrients are leached (washed out) by the high rainfall in a rainforest, and the soils are unstable in the absence of vegetation.

B.Because of high rates of growth, nutrients are rapidly taken up by plants and rapidly recycled from dead organisms, so rainforest soils can vary little in the way of free nutrients.

C. After a forest is cleared, productive crops can be raised for a year or two, but the nutrients are soon exhausted.

D. Production of annual crops is easily sustainable in this biome

Explanation / Answer

Answer) option C

After a forest is cleared, productive crops can be raised for a year or two, but the nutrients are soon exhausted

Explanation- this does not occur, as the forest is cleared, the nutrients in the soil remain due to absence of plants. The nutrients remain throughout and can be used to grow crops.

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