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Community Quiz
Test your knowledge of communties!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a limiting factor? | Anything that limits numbers exsistance reproducrion or distribution. |
| What is a community? | A group of many interacting poplulations. |
| What is a range of tolerance? | The ability of an organism to withstand changes in biotic or abiotic factors. |
| What is succession? | The orderly changes of a community and replacement of species. |
| What is pimary succession? | The colonization of a place where there are no living things. |
| What is secondary succession? | The colonization of a place that has recently been destroyed by a natural disaster. |
| What is a climax community? | When a community becomes stable and undergoes little to no change. |
| What is different about secondary succession as opposed to primary succession? | Pioneer species are different and climax community is reached faster. |
| What is the force that causes the rise and fall of the tides. | The gravitational pull of the moon. |
| Name all of the zones of the Marine Biome. | Intertidal Zone,Photic Zone,Aphotic Zone |
| What is the main food source for organisms in the Aphotic Zones? | Plankton |
| What are some adaptations that the organisms have to keep them from washing away in the Intertidal Zone? | Suction cups,secreting strong glue,burrowing in sand |
| True Or False? Away from the Intertidal Zone, the water is less affected by the tide. | True. |
| What is the name of the lowest zone in the ocean? | The Aphotic Zone. |
| More than ___ percent of the ocean is more than a kilometer deep. | 90 |
| A freshwater biome where aquatic plants grow. | Pond |
| Name three animals that live in ponds. | Tadpoles, aquatic insects,turtles, worms, crayfishes,whirligig beetles, dragonflies, minnows, and bluegill carp. |
| A freshwater biome with no aquatic plants (nor river). | Lake |
| The deeper the water the ______ the population density. | lower |