Environmental Science Quiz 5-3
 
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Environmental Science Quiz 5-3

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 
 
Section 3  -  How Ecosystems Change
 

 1. 

What type of vegetation would you expect to find on an abandoned farm that has remained undisturbed for 150 years?
a.
short grasses
b.
shrubs
c.
young pine trees
d.
tall, mature oak trees
 

 2. 

What type of vegetation would you expect to find on newly formed volcanic islands?
a.
lichens
b.
short grasses
c.
shrubs
d.
young trees
 

 3. 

What type of succession occurs after a natural process such as a flood?
a.
primary succession
b.
secondary succession
c.
old-field succession
d.
climax community
 

 4. 

The eruption of a volcano would be followed by
a.
primary succession.
b.
secondary succession.
c.
old-field succession.
d.
forest succession
 

Matching
 
 
Section 3  -  How Ecosystems Change

Choose the letter of the term or phrase that best matches the description.
a.
ecological succession
d.
pioneer species
b.
primary succession
e.
climax community
c.
secondary succession
f.
old-field succession
 

 5. 

a common type of succession that occurs on a surface where an ecosystem has previously existed
 

 6. 

the first organisms to colonize any newly available area and begin the process of ecological succession
 

 7. 

a final and stable community
 

 8. 

a type of succession that occurs on a surface where no ecosystem existed before
 

 9. 

a type of succession that occurs on abandoned farmland
 

 10. 

a gradual process of change and replacement of the types of species in a community
 



 
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