Biochemical oxygen demand or BOD is a test of the amount of oxygen needed for bacteria to break down the organic matter in a water sample over a period of
Consider the following statements and choose the correct answer:
1. The effects of biotic factors include interactions amongst plants growing in a community, between plants and animals including man and between plants and soil-microorganisms
2. In a densly populated area, one of the most important types of biotic factors influencing vegetation is due to man's multifarious activities - this is noted in farming operations
3. Change or destruction of vegetation by fire is a direct biotic effect due to man's activities
4. In many cases different plant groups, plants and bacteria live in mutual benefit - this is called symbiosis in which each partner derives some benefit from the other
Consider the following statements and choose the correct answer:
1. The density of water varies inversely with temperature
2. The density of water varies inversely with the concentration of dissolved substances
3. Water is more dense at approximately 4° C and becomes progressively less dense as it is cooled below +4° C
4. When great evaporation occurs in a lake having no outlet, the lake may come to contain a higher percentage of salts than the ocear
The amount by which respiration is increased over normal or ground respiration by the transfer of a plant or tissue from water to a salt solution is known as