Organisms and their Environment TEST

What is the order of succession shown in this figure?

• A, B, C, D
• B, A, D, C
• C, D, A, B
• D, A, B, C

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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A garden was cleared out, but had to be left alone for a month. What would you expect to see?

• lichens and mosses
• grasses and weeds
• a fully blossomed garden
• bushes and small trees

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Starts with BARE ROCK followed by lichen

• primary succession 
• secondary succession
• both types of succession

What type of succession is shown going from figure A to figure B?

• primary succession
• eutrophication
• secondary succession
• intermediate

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is Ecological Succession?

• Competition between plants in a society
• A natural disaster such as a flood or fire
• The cycle of a tomato plant
• The change an ecosystem experiences over time

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which of the following is true in a climax community?

• the community will constantly evolve and change
• if one species dies, a new species will fulfill the same role
• They are stable for a long time, with the same species maintaining their population
• it goes through a major change called "climax" every few hundred years

The first organisms that appear in an ecological community

• ecological succession 
• primary succession 
• secondary succession
• pioneer species

The picture shows what type of succession?

• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
• quadanary

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The final stable community of plants and animals is called:

• pioneer community

• farmland

• climax community

• old field

Biodiversity is the variety of ________ in a community.

• genes
• population
• species
• community

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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