Ecological Succession

The spores or seeds from bacteria, plants, and/or fungi that get dispersed to a new area contributing to ecological succession.

__________ is the practice of managing forests, planting and harvesting trees for the purposes of lumber use.

_________ is an organism that feeds on dead organic material, usually plant litter.

___________ is the over nutrification of a waterway usually due to fertilization of farmland and water run-off from it.

_________ succession is primarily caused by living organisms.

In which type of succession would you expect to find mosses and lichens as the initial colonizers?

• secondary succession

• primary succession

• tertiary succession

• pioneer succession

• climax succession

Which of the following is an example of a pioneer species?

• Oak trees

• Lichens

• Grasses

• Shrubs

• Ferns

This mechanism contributing to succession involves organisms rivaling each other for resources.

succession that only occurs in an area with no soil, only rocks

• ecological succession 
• primary succession 
• secondary succession
• pioneer succesion

• anthrogenic succession

________ succession is caused primarily by environmental factors not plants or other living organisms.