LARC 160 Study Guide - Final Guide: Green Roof, Complete Streets, Hardiness Zone

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Landscape Architecture
• Course: LARC 160
• Professor: Dennis Nola

Document Summary

Behavior mapping: looking how people use an area, move, and congregate: william whyte principle/guideline: good urban area is made up of food, water, triangulation, and sunlight. Canopy tree : tree that grow up and above others. Evergreen tree: needle like leaves don"t fall off. Plant habitat: the local living environment of an organism. Plant community/association: plant communities/plant community association are plants that like to grow next to each other to exchange nutrients. Never plant plants that are not in the same community together because they require different nutrients causing one plant to die. Xeriscaping: minimizing water use, plants that don"t need a lot of attention. Hardiness zone: areas that is geographically defined with specific category of plant life. Defined by temperature (minimum degrees a plant can withstand): md hardiness zone: 7a or 7b. Floodplain: a floodplain is an area of land that is prone to flooding.