Science Cat Events & Succession Test Review

Process of an ecosystem changing/re-growing over time

• Ecological Succession

• Secondary Succession

• Primary Succession

• Climax Community

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Succession that begins in an area with soil

• Primary Succession

• Secondary Succession

• Ecological Succession

• Catastrophe Events

Example of a pioneer organism; acids in roots break apart rock creating soil?

• Climax Community

• Catastrophic Events

• Lichen

• Pioneer Species

• pollen

Succession that begins in an area with only rock (no soil)

• Secondary Succession

• Catastrophic Events

• Lichen

• Primary Succession

Natural Disasters

• Catastrophic Events

• Climax Community

• Pioneer Species

• Ecological Succession

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Stable, end stable of succession

• Secondary Succession

• Primary Succession

• Ecological Succession

• Climax Community

First Species back to an area after a disturbance

• Ecological Succession

• Lichen

• Pioneer Species

• Catastrophic Events

What is a positive effect of floods?

• none of the above

• seed dispersal

• increases biodiversity

• replenishes soil nutrients

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is a positive effect of wildfires?

• confier seed dispersal

• increases biodiversity

• replenishes soil nutrients

• BOTH:

  increases biodiversity & replenishes soil nutrients

Click 3 Primary Successions

• Glaciers eroding away all soil as it moves

• An old abandoned parking lot

• Lava from a volcano hardening to form rock

• Rock slide leaving large boulders

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2