Vocabulary
What is a group of different plants and animals living in the same area.
What is a community?
Must live off of a host
What is a parasite?
This succession starts with volcanic rock.
What is Primary Succession?
When organisms with the traits best fit for their environment survive and reproduce
What is natural selection
All living or once living elements in an ecosystem
What is biotic
What is parasitism
the predator eats this
what is prey
A catastrophe event happens in this succession.
What is Secondary Succession?
when an organism changes a body part or behavior over time to survive
what is adaptation
All non-living elements in an ecosystem
what is abiotic
An organism that eats both plants and animals
Both species benefit
What is mutualism
This stage has soil in primary succession
What is stage 2
when specific traits in plants and animals are chosen by humans
All the abiotic and biotic factors in an area
This is when trees are fully grown, the ecosystem is diverse, and many different animals/plants are thriving.
What is climax community?
One species benefits and the other is indifferent
what is commensalism
Ecological succession that begins with soil.
What is secondary succession?
What are genes
Limits the number of individuals that can live in an ecosystem
What are limiting factors
Type of ecological succession in which pioneer species first colonize a barren, rocky, and lifeless habitat
What is primary succession?
Uses the Sun's energy to make food
What is producer or autotroph?
Ecological succession that begins without soil.
What is primary succession?
This person studied natural selection
Smallest level of ecosystem organization
what is an organism