AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -E. WOODLAND (CHAPARRAL): sparse to dense woody vegetation of low trees and shrubs, typically with very thick, tough evergreen leaves. Summers with little rain, fires every 5-20 years. Typical plants include oaks, manzanita, chamise, low pines, and junipers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chaparral, or Mediterranean Forests, and shrub is a temperate biome, characterized by hot-dry summers and mild and rainy winters. Nearly all of the rainfall occurs in the winter and spring rainy season.

Detailed explanation-3: -Common plants of the chaparral ecosystem include toyon, sugarbush, yucca, coffeeberry, California buckwheat, scrub oak, mountain mahogany, and chamise. Higher elevation chaparral is dominated by manzanita. Historically, fire swept through chaparral areas approximately every 20 to 30 years.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chaparral is largely found in regions of California and northern Mexico with a climate similar to that of the Mediterranean area, characterized by hot dry summers and mild wet winters.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: The chaparral biome is characterized by d. dense evergreen shrubs, mild, wet winters, and hot dry summers. The chaparral is referred to as shrubland and contains many dense thickets of evergreen sclerophyll shrubs and small trees that are able to survive the arid summers.