Question
The ancient rainforests of Australia’s eastern coast are named for this landmass, whose relict biota include Araucaria and southern beeches. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this landmass known from coal seams in Odisha that contain fossils of Late Paleozoic Glossopteris flora. The name of this prehistoric landmass comes from a Deccan Adivasi people whose Garha kingdom was led by Rani Durgavati.
ANSWER: Gondwana [or Gondwanaland; accept Gonds or Gondi people or Gondaranya; accept Koitur or Kōītōr; accept Gondwana Rainforests of Australia; reject “Pangaea”]
[10e] Gondwanan rainforests once covered this extant landmass, whose deprecated floristic realm included buzzy burr and the Kerguelen (“KURR-guh-lin”) cabbage. Argentina claims part of this landmass opposite French Adélie Land.
ANSWER: Antarctica [or Antártida or Antarctique; accept subantarctic; accept Antarctic floristic kingdom or Holantarctic floristic realm] (The Antarctic floristic kingdom is now divided into the Chile-Patagonian and Novozealandic realms as biogeographers recognize post-Gondwanan speciation and dispersal.)
[10h] On the Ross expedition, Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Flora Antarctica illustrated these diverse, gigantic wildflowers that cover Macquarie (“muh-quarry”) Island and New Zealand’s subantarctic islands.
ANSWER: megaherbs
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley B | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |