Quiz on Ecology Factors & Succession

After a volcanic eruption, lava covers the land. What is the order that plants grow to repopulate the area?

• Lichens → Shrubs → Grasses → Trees
• Lichens → tree → shrubs→Grasses
• Grasses → Lichens → Shrubs → Trees
• Lichens → Grasses → Shrubs → Trees

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

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

starts with bare rock followed by lichen

• primary succession 
• secondary succession
• both types of succession

this type of succession occurs after a forest fire

• primary succession
• secondary succession
• both

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

What are examples of pioneer species in a primary succession?

• Bushes and Shrubs
• Oak trees
• Mossess and Lichens 
• A rose Bush

Zebra

• Biotic (living)

• Abiotic (non-living)

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Abiotic means....

• Living

• squirrels

• nonliving

• Adaptations

Biotic means...

• Living

• nonliving

• Biotic and abiotic factors working together

• Organisms competing for the same resources

Air is a mixture of colorless gases. Air is an example of which type of factor?

• BIOTIC

• ABIOTIC