10.2 biodiversity

Question 1

What is species richness?

Answer 1

The number of different types of species

Question 2

What is species evenness?

Answer 2

Abundance or proportion of species

Question 3

What is species diversity?

Answer 3

The variation of living things in an ecosystem

Question 4

What is ecological succession?

Answer 4

The changes that an ecosystem goes through to create predictable and established behaviors

Question 5

Primary succession

Answer 5

First ecological succession starting on rock

Question 6

Serial stages

Answer 6

The stages in ecological succession between the pioneer community and the climax community

Question 7

Climax community

Answer 7

The established and predictable community that lives in an area in ecological succession

Question 8

Pioneer community

Answer 8

The first living things such as low growing plants to grow in barren land in ecological succession

Question 9

Secondary vs primary succession

Answer 9

Primary succession is on barren rock and secondary is when there was already soil and life before the recovery