WorksheetsEcological Succession
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 11mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is the order of succession shown in this figure?
a)
A, B, C, D
b)
B, A, D, C
c)
C, D, A, B
d)
D, A, B, C
2.
What type of succession is shown going from figure A to figure B?
a)
primary succession
b)
ecological succession
c)
secondary succession
d)
intermediate
3.
The picture shows what type of succession?
a)
primary
b)
secondary
4.
The picture shows what type of succession?
a)
primary
b)
secondary
5.
What are examples of pioneer species in a primary succession?
a)
Bushes and Shrubs
b)
Oak trees
c)
Mosses and Lichens
d)
A rose Bush
6.
After a volcanic eruption, lava covers the land. What is the order that plants grow to repopulate the area?
a)
Lichens → Shrubs → Grasses → Trees
b)
Lichens → tree → shrubs→Grasses
c)
Grasses → Lichens → Shrubs → Trees
d)
Lichens → Grasses → Shrubs → Trees
7.
This is the process that forms a new ecosystem where no organisms lived before.
a)
resource
b)
invasive (non- native) species
c)
primary succession
d)
competition
8.
What is the correct order from oldest (happened first) to youngest (happened last) in this pond succession?
a)
A, B, C, D
b)
D, C, B, A
c)
B, A, D, C
d)
C, D, A, B
9.
In which type of succession is soil is already present?
a)
primary succession
b)
secondary succession
c)
both types of succession
10.
What is the first species you will see after a primary succession?
a)
lichens
b)
grasses
c)
small plants
11.
What does the final picture (#8) show?
a)
pioneer species
b)
a climax community
c)
only biotic factors
d)
only abiotic factors
12.
Which type of succession does this cartoon show?
a)
primary succession
b)
secondary succession
13.
Which type of succession does this picture show?
a)
primary succession
b)
secondary succession
14.
This plant is an example of...
a)
Climax communities
b)
Secondary succession
c)
Lichen
d)
Pioneer species
15.
This is an example of...
a)
Secondary Succession
b)
Primary succession
c)
Utter and complete destruction! RAWR!
d)
Climax Communities
16.
A pioneer species is...
a)
a large organism
b)
the first organisms to adapt to a new environment
c)
The best organism
d)
Abiotic organisms
17.
What is the most important function of pioneer species?
a)
To create rocks
b)
To create soil and add nutrients to the environment
c)
To look nice
d)
Food for animals
18.
Succession that occurs in an area with NO SOIL
a)
ecological succession
b)
primary succession
c)
secondary succession
d)
pioneer species
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