Unit 7 Ecosystem Vocabulary

What is ecological succession?

• A slow change in an environment
• A change that takes days in an environment
• No change
• Abiotic change

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What are examples of pioneer species in a primary succession?

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

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What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?

• Primary succession already has soil.
• Primary has soil and secondary does not
• soil is present in both
• primary has no soil and secondary has soil

The largest population an area can support is called its...

• carrying capacity

• limited factor

• adaptation

• biotic factor

What is the relationship between these two living things?

• Parasitism

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Dependency

The zebra and giraffe shown here are eating from the same tree. What is a good way to describe the relationship between the zebra and the giraffe?

• One is a predator and the other is a prey

• They are competitors for the tree

• They are carnivores

• One depends on the other

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An organism that kills and eats another organism is called a:

• Prey

• Herbivore

• Decomposer

• Predator

What is a omnivore?

• An organism that eats only meat

• An organism that eats only plants

• An organism that eats plants and meat

• An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals

A community comprising all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them

• ecosystem

• population

• species

• Environmental interaction

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Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship in which what occurs between the organisms?

• both organisms are harmed

• one benefits, the other is unaffected

• one benefits, the other is harmed

• one benefits by eating the other

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