Ecological Succession

This plantlike living thing is made up of an alga and a fungus growing together on a solid surface.

• equilibrium

• primary succession

• lichen

• climax community

this occurs in an area that has no living organisms and no topsoil such as glacier retreat or lava flow.

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• pioneer species

• climax community

forced changes on an ecosystem such as diseases, volcanic activity, tornado, logging, drought

• moss

• natural disturbance

• ecological succession

• equilibrium

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The end of a succession resulting in a stabilized community such as a desert, rainforest, prairie.

• climax community

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• ecological succession

A group of hardy organisms, such as lichens, found in the primary stage of succession and begin an area's soil-building process.

• equilibrium

• climax community

• pioneer species

• secondary species

Occurs when a community has been partially destroyed after a forest fire, flood, and drought. This succession still has soil remaining.

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• ecological succession

• climax community

The observed process of normal and gradual changes that occur in the types of species that live in an ecological community over time.

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• ecological succession

• climax communities

Ecological Succession is best described as...

• An area with species that do not compete in an area

• a change in the weather

• a gradual change in plant and animal likfe in an ecosystem over time

• the dominant species in one particular area

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A community of lichen and moss growing on an area after a glacier retraction.

• pioneer species

• primary succession

• secondary succession

• climax communities

Which of the following represents secondary succession

• lichen on rocks

• plants growing on sand dunes

• moss growing on volcanic lava

• plants growing in a forest after a fire