Ecology

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What will most likely happen to an organism that cannot adapt to changes in the environment?

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die

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Examples of environmental changes caused by humans: clearing land for housing developments, pesticides, pollution. Which one is not caused by humans?

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volcanic eruption

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Which environmental factor most likely contributes to the change in lizard population? Options: increase in available water and food, increase in shelter, increase in predators, increase in light

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increase in predators

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Why were the rabbits so successful in Australia after being released in the 1850s?

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The rabbits did not have natural predators.

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What physical biological trait must giraffes keep to feed on the canopy of trees?

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a long neck

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This figure shows three warblers with different niches in a spruce tree habitat. The warblers are feeding in different areas of the tree which allows them to avoid _

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competing with one another for food

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An ______ includes all living and nonliving things together in an area.

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ecosystem

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First species to arrive in an area

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pioneer species

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Series of changes where other organisms have not previously lived

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primary succession

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Series of changes where an existing community is destroyed

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secondary succession