Practice question · Put in order
Order the layers of a bog pollen core from oldest to most recent.
- Deep peat: full tree cover, high elm pollen
- Surface peat: hedgerows, imported and garden species
- Expanding grassland and cereal, open landscape
- Elm decline; first cereal and weed pollen
Hints
- Deeper is older in an undisturbed core.
- The sequence should run from wildwood toward managed land.
Show the answer
- Deep peat: full tree cover, high elm pollen
- Elm decline; first cereal and weed pollen
- Expanding grassland and cereal, open landscape
- Surface peat: hedgerows, imported and garden species
Why
Down is old, up is young. The core reads like a film of the landscape opening under human hands, run from forest primeval to managed countryside.
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