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This document is a quiz about ecosystems and succession. It contains 10 multiple choice questions about topics like how fire helps certain grass species, secondary vs primary succession, and how dams and floods affect ecosystems. It tests understanding of concepts like succession, biodiversity, and how ecosystems change over time due to natural and human disturbances.

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This document is a quiz about ecosystems and succession. It contains 10 multiple choice questions about topics like how fire helps certain grass species, secondary vs primary succession, and how dams and floods affect ecosystems. It tests understanding of concepts like succession, biodiversity, and how ecosystems change over time due to natural and human disturbances.

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Name: Date: Unit 3 Lesson 2

Lesson Quiz

Quiz: Changes in Ecosystems

Read each question. Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Some grass species need fire in order for their


seeds to germinate. Why might this adaptation 3. Which statement best describes ecosystems?
be useful for grasses? A. They can never change once they are
A. Fire allows trees to grow and to provide established.
shade for the grasses. B. They constantly change in different ways
B. The hot temperature of the fire helps the over time.
grasses grow faster. C. Ecosystems always revert back to their
C. Seeds can germinate in an area that has been original state.
cleared by a fire. D. Each ecosystem can exist for only a specific
D. Fire discourages grazing by large animals so length of time.
the grasses can grow higher.
4. Which of these might result from the process
2. The diagram models succession in an of natural eutrophication?
ecosystem. A. A pond becomes a meadow.
B. A rock breaks down into soil.
C. A glacier retreats to expose new land.
D. A nonnative species takes resources from
native species.

5. The table lists the number and variety of


organisms in four different ecosystems.

How can you tell from the diagram that this is


an example of secondary succession rather than
of primary succession?
A. No plants exist when the process begins.
B. Soil is present at the beginning of the
process.
C. The process ends with the growth of large
Predict what would happen to Ecosystem 3
trees.
immediately after a volcanic eruption.
D. The sizes of the plants generally increase
A. Its biodiversity would decrease.
over time.
B. Its biodiversity would not change.
C. The number and variety of organisms in the
ecosystem would be greater than those in
Ecosystem 1.
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D. The number and variety of organisms in the Ecosystem 2.
ecosystem would be greater than those in

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Lesson Quiz
6. How is secondary succession different from primary succession?

A. Secondary succession occurs over a longer period of time than primary succession.
B. Secondary succession occurs when animals are introduced to an area that had only plants.
C. Secondary succession occurs after a disturbance in an area that was previously uninhabited.
D. Secondary succession occurs after a disturbance in an area in which the soil has remained intact.

7. What is the first step in the eutrophication of a pond?


A. A meadow develops.
B. Plant communities take over.
C. Excess nutrients build up in the water.
D. Debris builds up on the bottom of the pond.
Read each statement. Write your answer on the lines.

8. The picture shows a dam built on a river. A dam is a type of man-made disturbance to an ecosystem.

Describe how the dam would affect the ecosystem behind and in front of the dam.

Predict how a dam might affect the fish that live and breed in that river.

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Lesson Quiz

9. The picture shows an ecosystem that experienced a flood several months before.

Is the ecosystem shown more likely a result of primary succession or secondary succession? Explain
why.

Explain how the high biodiversity of this ecosystem would affect its recovery following the flood.

10. The diagram shows two species of birds that normally live in different ecosystems. Finch 1 eats only
small insects. Finch 2 can eat small and large insects.

Predict what might happen to the population of Finch 1 if a population of Finch 2 is introduced into the
ecosystem where Finch 1 is the native species.

Finch 1 are small, fast birds. Finch 2 birds are large and relatively slow. Predict how the introduction of
Finch 2 might affect a population of hawks living in the ecosystem.

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