Ecology Basics

The picture shows what type of succession?

• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
• quadanary

What is the name given to lichen or algae after a primary succession?

• pioneer species
• volunteer species
• founder species
• conqueror species

the process by which a new community forms where no community lived before 

• resource
• invasive (non- native) species
• primary succession
• competition

What is the first species you will see after a primary succession? (in picture)

• lichens
• grasses
• small plants

Succession type?

• primary succession
• secondary succession
• tertiary succession
• variable succession

What do you call an animal that only eats plants?

• niche

• carnivore

• parasite

• herbivore

• predator

The animal in an ecological relationship that results in another animal being hunted, killed, and eaten…

• autotroph

• habitat

• predator

• herbivore

• producer

What would you call an ecological symbiotic relationship that is helpful to both organisms involved?

• commensalism
• niche
• mutualism
• habitat
• parasitism

An ecological symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is harmed…

• parasitism

• herbivore

• mutualism

• carnivore

• commensalism

What you would call an ecological symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one benefits, but the other is not helped or harmed?

• mutualsim

• predator

• commensalism

• parasitism

• herbivory