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Succession Questionnaire
Instructions: Read pages 106-109 of your M & L Biology textbook, then answer the following
questions with complete sentences. WRITE THE QUESTIONS AND YOUR ANSWERS ON
LINED PAPER.
1. What is an ecologist?
2. What is ecological succession?
3. What are the types of ecological succession? Create a table that compares
and contrast the types of succession.
4. What does ecological succession involve?
5. Why does succession occur?
6. What is a pioneer species? Give an example and explain how the species
effects primary succession.
7. What is a climax community?
8. Why do communities change over time?
9. How have ecological ideas about climax communities changed?
10.What types of information changed the thinking of ecologists on climax
communities?
11.Describe what causes instability in some climax communities?
12.Does succession always restore the original climax community? Explain.
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