Thr Plant Kingdom- Social Struggle

Question 1

Define ecological succession

Answer 1

The gradual process in which ecosystems change and develop over time, nothing remains the same and habitats are constantly changing

Question 2

Name the two main types of succession

Answer 2

Primary and secondary

Question 3

Explain the two

Answer 3

P- the series of community changes which occur on an entirely new habitat which has never before been colonized, eg. Rocky slope after a volcanic eruption

S- series of community changes which takes place on a previously colonized but disturbed or damaged habitat, eg. After felling trees in a woodland

Question 4

What is meant by competition

Answer 4

The battle for access to a short supply of a resource that us needed by two or more organisms

Question 5

What might competition result in

Answer 5

One organism gaining supremacy by growing faster and more aggressively taking the majority of the available nutrients and thus may suppress or even kill the other organism or the two organisms might co exist in a stable equilibrium sharing the resource more equally between them

Question 6

Give an eg.

Answer 6

Strangler figs