LARC 160 Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers

What is a floodplain? Correct Answer The flat land on either side of a stream that becomes covered with water during a flood How can floods assist an area? Correct Answer -helps spread organic material, nutrients, and sediments which enrich floodplain soils -replenish water resources and trigger life processes such as bird breeding events, migration, and seed dispersal in flora and fauna adapted to these cycles, while good soil moisture can allow crops and pastures to be established What is the ASLA? Correct Answer American Society of Landscape Architects -advance landscape architecture through advocacy, communication, education, and fellowship What are the three categories of landscape assessment related to design solution observations? Correct Answer cultural built natural What is the lowest elevation on our campus? The highest? Correct Answer 75 feet; 175 feet What are landscape problems associated with development? Correct Answer •Wind erosion, energy loss, discomfort •Soil loss, erosion, sedimentation, property damage •Habitat loss, species reduction •Water quality impairment, flooding, sedimentation, aquatic ecosystem disruption •Heat island increases •High maintenance costs •Air quality impairment Name three natural systems that provide ecosystem services. Correct Answer -Hydrology -Soil -Vegetation What are the two most important soil properties to a landscape architect? Correct Answer (farmland importance) Can I grow on it or (bearing capacity) can I build on it? What are the sources of soil? Correct Answer er