Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Section 3 - How Ecosystems Change
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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 |
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What type of vegetation would you expect to find on newly formed volcanic
islands?
a. | lichens | b. | short grasses | c. | shrubs | d. | young trees |
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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 |
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The eruption of a volcano would be followed by
a. | primary succession. | b. | secondary succession. | c. | old-field
succession. | d. | forest succession |
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Matching
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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 |
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a common type of succession that occurs on a surface where an ecosystem has
previously existed
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the first organisms to colonize any newly available area and begin the process
of ecological succession
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a final and stable community
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a type of succession that occurs on a surface where no ecosystem existed
before
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a type of succession that occurs on abandoned farmland
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a gradual process of change and replacement of the types of species in a
community
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