Succession Key Words

Question 1

Succession

Answer 1

The changes in an ecosystem over time, and the species that occupy it.

Question 2

Pioneer species

Answer 2

A species that can colonise bare rock or ground

Question 3

Climax community

Answer 3

The stable, final, community that exists in a balanced equilibrium

Question 4

Conservation

Answer 4

The maintenance of ecosystems and biodiversity by humans to preserve the earths resources. This typically involves the manage,ent of succession.

Question 5

Interspecific competition

Answer 5

Competition between members of different species

Question 6

Intraspecific competition

Answer 6

Competition between the same species.

Question 7

Niche

Answer 7

How an organism fits j to an ecosystem and its role in that environment

Question 8

Community

Answer 8

A group of populations of different species

Question 9

Population

Answer 9

Group of individuals of the same species

Question 10

Individual

Answer 10

One organism of one specie

Question 11

Sand dune system

Answer 11

An ecosystem on the banks of water made of sand with hills and dips

Question 12

Humus

Answer 12

Decomposed dead organic matter

Question 13

Barren terrain

Answer 13

Land that’s empty and bare, very difficult for plants and animals to survive on unless they’re a specialist specie.

Question 14

Hostile

Answer 14

Agressive, unpleasant when describing a person or object

Question 15

Dominant specie

Answer 15

The main specie in an ecosystem, whether in number or ability. E.g shade tolerant trees are the dominant species because there are lots of them in the climax community and they’re better adapted.

Question 16

Examples of pioneer species

Answer 16

Lichens moss marram grass

Question 17

Grazing

Answer 17

Feeding done by cows horses sheep slow as where the top of grass is bitten off but the roots are still in tact. Feeding on plants short and close to the ground.

Question 18

Browsing

Answer 18

Type of feeding that deer do where the small plant shoots and new leaves and flower buds on branches are chewed away. Feeding on taller plants.

Question 19

To manage

Answer 19

To have control over a process that can affect the process in different ways, limiting it, accelerating it or maintaining it.

Question 20

Catastrophic event

Answer 20

A sudden and terrible disastrous event.

Question 21

Natural disaster

Answer 21

Abiotic events that cause great loss to life and damage to environment