The largest desert on earth is the: a) Sonoran b) Atacama c) Namibian d) Mongolo

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The largest desert on earth is the: a) Sonoran b) Atacama c) Namibian d) Mongoloid e) Sahara Nutrient availability for plants in lowland tropical rain forests is largely contained in: a) living plants b) feces of small river fish c) decomposing insects and animal carcasses d) large rivers e) rich topsoil The Holdridge Life Zone system for classifying global habitats is based primarily upon: a) associations among plant species b) temperature isoclines as related to geological formations c) data pertaining to the predictability of carbon budgets d) climatic and vegetation data e) relationships between climatic and evapotranspiration data In which habitat would you expect to find the most species of insectivorous birds? a) deserts b) tropical forests c) arctic d) grasslands e) savannas The loss of biodiversity due to market economics stems from the relative advantage of promoting and selling species: a) a great variety of commercially valuable b) very fe

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8. Sahara

The largest deser is the Sahara Desert. It is a subtropical desert in northern Africa covering a surface area of about 3.5 million square miles.

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10. Climatic and vegetation data.

The Holdridge life zones system is a global bioclimatic scheme for the classification of land areas. It is based on few empirical data, with it's basic assumption that both soil and climax vegetation can be mapped once climate is known.

11. tropical forests.

12. Great variety of commercially valuable species.

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