PDF Amoeba Sisters Video Recap: Ecological Succession

Amoeba Sisters Video Recap: Ecological Succession

1. If you had to define ecological succession in your own words in a 140 character text, how would you define it?

2. How is primary succession different from secondary succession? Give an example of an event that may lead to primary succession.

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3. How can moss and lichen, which may grow in the beginning of primary succession, potentially make it easier for other organisms to grow and live in the same area later on? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What is meant by a pioneer species? Would you expect a shrub or dandelion (dispersed by wind-blown seeds) to be a more likely pioneer plant species? Why? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________

Amoeba Sisters Video Recap: Ecological Succession

Ecological succession is valuable to understand, because it can change the biodiversity within an ecological community. Being able to teach a topic to a peer can demonstrate mastery! Explain the sequence of events that occur in secondary succession as you would to a friend who had not yet learned about the process.

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