Communities, Biomes, and Ecology

—______ is a series of changes that occur in a community over time after disturbances. 

• community succession 
• ecological succession 
• population succession 
• tertiary succession 

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Name the type of succession in which some life is left after a disturbance. 

• primary sucession
• secondary succession
• tertiary succession
• quaternary succession 

What is an example of a community?

• Dogs
• A dog
• Dogs and cats
• A dog in a doghouse

A collection of organisms that belong to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Ecosphere

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The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

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The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors

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Primary succession is... 

• When a hurricane causes a river to flood its banks
• When a farmer ploughs his fields to remove all existing plant life.
• When fire burns through a forest and ills all vegetation less than 1m tall.
• When increasing temperature causes a glacier to recede from an area of rocky ground

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The secondary succession is 

• lichens and mosses arrive on bare rock and begin to trap soil
• a complex, stable ecosystem is formed
• plants grow in an area devastated by a flood
• plants grow in a newly formed pond

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What is the name of an animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals?

• producer
• prey
• predator
• decomposer

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Which biome holds the greatest biodiversity?

• grassland
• tundra
• rainforest
• desert

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