Ecosystems and Environments

A relatively stable state of succession or the end product of succession

• Climax Community

• Ecosystem

• End of Succession

• Ecological Succession

The place where an organism naturally lives and grows

• Habitat

• Biome

• Climax Community

• Microhabitat

A very small, specialized habitat

• Habitat

• Microhabitiat

• Small Population

• Habitat

Happens after new land is created or exposed

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succesion

• New Land Succession

• Exposed Succession

Happens after a devastating event

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succesion

• Devastating Succession

• OH NO Succession

In what way is under a rock a mircrohabitat?

• It supports a distinct population of organisms

• It provides camouflage for particular organims to protect them

• It enriches the soil

• It is a large community of organisms that occupy a major habitat

If your local environment begins to turn into a desert, what will most likely happe to the organisms?

• Population of existing organims will increase

• Populations of existing organisms will not be affected

• Environment will be unable to support existing population

• Different organisms will be supported rather than the existing ones

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Which best describes the comparison of lake and ocean environments?

• They support the same organisms because they are both water

• They support different organisms because they are different types of water

• They support the same organisms but look different because of the water type

• They support different organisms because land blocks oceans from getting into lakes

How does biodiverstiy contribue to the sustainablity of an ecosystem?

• A variety of plant & animal species allow for more survivors of a natual disaster

• Having more species allows the human population to increase in size

• Low biodiversity reduces the competition for resouces

• fewer speices reduces the likelihood that diseae spreads through the ecosystem

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A plant species that is responsible for priamry succession in an ecosystem is most likely able to -

• Survive any preadator

• Migrate during the winter

• Live at high altitudes

• Carry out photosynthesis

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