Habitats ,Niches and Succession

Question 1

Habitat

Answer 1

described as an area with a particular combination of physical and biological environmental factors that affect which organisms can live within it. ecological “address”

Question 2

Tolerance

Answer 2

the variety of environmental conditions within which it can reproduce

Question 3

Optimum Range

Answer 3

Is the range where the environmental conditions enable individuals to find enough energy and nutrient to maintain homeostasis

Question 4

If one or more environmental conditions, such as temperature rise above or fall below that optimum range then?

Answer 4

individuals experience stress and individuals under it must expend more energy to remain in homeostasis and leaves less energy to grow and reproduce the higher the stress fewer they will produce and fewer of those offspring will survive and when it reaches the tolerance limits individual may survive but not reproduce

Question 5

Niche

Answer 5

where an organism lives and what it does for a living including the way it interacts with biotic and abiotic factors also includes the range of physical and biological conditions in which it can survive reproduce and the way it obtain resources it needs

Question 6

Ecological Succession

Answer 6

a series of somewhat predictable events occur in a community over time

Question 7

Primary succession

Answer 7

Succession that begins on newly formed rock or other areas that have no remnants of an older community

Question 8

Pioneer species

Answer 8

first species to colonize barren areas ( broad range of tolerance and they break down rock, synthesize organic material, and begin to form new soil)

Question 9

Secondary Succesion

Answer 9

when a disturbance affects an existing community but doesn’t completely destroy it proceeds faster than primary succession HAS SOIL

Question 10

Climax communities

Answer 10

area which has reached a stable ecological succession doesn’t always be uniform and stable