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1.4.3b Ecology of Conifers

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Total cards: 10•Content version: v3•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

Define Northern conifers

Back (Answer)

Trees that escaped glaciers, primarily in the West

#2
Front (Question)

What family makes up most of the Southern conifers?

Back (Answer)

The araucaria family

#3
Front (Question)

Two facts about the boreal forest

Back (Answer)

circumpolar, and one of the biggest ecosystems in the world

#4
Front (Question)

What is the Coastal Relict Forest?

Back (Answer)

Forest that missed glaciers that allowed for species there to be alive for the last 200 million years

#5
Front (Question)

What species was discovered alive in China after it was thought extinct in North America?

Back (Answer)

Meta seqoia

#6
Front (Question)

What is an endemic?

Back (Answer)

local species

#7
Front (Question)

Where did Southern conifers originally evolve?

Back (Answer)

Gonwanaland

#8
Front (Question)

What new species of pine was discovered several years ago?

Back (Answer)

Wollemi Pine

#9
Front (Question)

What is a nurse log?

Back (Answer)

A fallen tree on which new trees grow and derive the fallen trees nutrients

#10
Front (Question)

What symbionts do conifers use to derive nitrogen, and what two nitrogen containing compounds are harvested?

Back (Answer)

ecto-mycorrhizae, and they absorb NH4 and NO3