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Succession
review key words for ecological succession
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecological community changes where new populations of heterotrophs and autotrophs replace previous populations of organisms | succession |
| first organism to live in a place after a disaster | pioneer organism |
| many different living things | biodiversity |
| final stage of ecological succession, most diverse and most stable of ecosystems | climax community |
| all plants, autotrophs that live in an ecosystem | vegetation |
| 2, 4, 6, 8 | sequence of numbers |
| accumulate | to gather or to collect something - like sand at the bottom of a pond |
| tornado, flood, earthquake, forest fire | natural disasters |
| human intervention | a oil tanker spills 1000's of liters of oil in the ocean |