Range Judging Ch 1 & 2 Vocabulary

3. The group of plants best adapted to the physical characteristics of the site. This plant community makes the best use of the available soil nutrients, soil moisture, and energy from the sun under current conditions.
4. Refers to relative preference by livestock and wildlife for grazing.
5. Have spreading aboveground stems that may root at the nodes and form new plants.
7. May kill animals or or reduce animal productivity.
9. Make their principle growth during the cool conditions in spring and fall.
11. Have net-like veins in the leaves, and the leaves have various shapes.
13. Look like grasses but have solid stems
14. Have persistent woody stems that remain alive from one year to the next.
15. Involves primarily vegetations changes and progresses much more rapidly because soil development is already present (soil remains).
17. Have neither rhizomes nor stolons.
20. Have been brought in from outside North America.
21. Occurs when disturbance of the climax plant community results in degradation of a range site.
22. Live only one season.

1. Are part of the original vegetation of North America.
2. Make their principle growth during the late spring to mid-summer and devlop seed in the lare summer or early fall.
6. Have spreading underground stem from which new plants may arise from the parent plants.
8. Live two years and flower only during the second growing season
10. Initial development of soil parent material (bare rock).
12. Live from year to year and produce leaves and stems for more than two years from the same plant.
13. Plants with jointed stems
16. The final stage in succession when the soil and plant community are somewhat in balance with the climate, topography, animals, and other factors.
18. A specific kind of land on which the native vegetation is predominantly grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, or woody plants suitable for grazing or browsing by large herbivores.
19. The portion of shrubs that animals may consume.