What is the difference between a perennial and an annual plant?

Explain the difference between a gymnosperm (conifer) and an angiosperm. Name trees that are examples of each.

Explain the difference between a deciduous tree and an evergreen tree. Name trees that are examples of each.

Explain the difference between a broadleaf tree and a needleleaf tree. Name trees that are examples of each.

Describe some typical xerophytic adaptations of plants.

Describe some typical hygrophytic adaptations of plants.

What are the differences among forests, woodlands, shrublands?

What are the similarities and differences among the grasslands: savanna, prairie, and steppe?

Briefly describe the desert, tundra, and wetlands plant associations.

Explain what is meant by vertical zonation of vegetation patterns.

Define and explain what causes the treeline.

What is the difference between an adret slope and a ubac slope? How and why is vegetation likely to be different on an adret slope and a ubac slope?

What is riparian vegetation?