Unit 2: Wildlife Ecology Review

1. Explain this difference between primary and secondary succession.

2. Explain 2 causes for each type of succession

a. Primary:

b. Secondary:

3. What is a pioneer species? Give 2 examples.

4. What is a climax community? Why is this community really resilient?

5. Why is it fairly easy for an introduced species to become an invasive species in its new environment?

6. Compare/Contrast the types of symbiosis: mutualism, commensalism, parasitism. Give an example of each.

7. Why is biodiversity important?

8. What is the major threat to biodiversity? ________________________________

9. How do habitat islands form?

10. What are edge effects and why are edges are problem?

11. What are wildlife corridors? Why are they important?

12. Which has more biodiversity? (circle one from each letter)
a. Big island vs. small island
b. Close island vs. Far island

13. Describe 2 invasive species, include the following: where they are from, where they are a problem, what
problems they are causing, what is being done to control them

14. Describe 2 endangered species, include the following: where they are located, what is causing their population
to decline, what is being done to help their population.
15. Draw a food web consisting of 12 species.

16. From your food web, write down a food chain and label tropic levels 1-4, producers, producers, consumers
(primary-tertiary)

17. About how much energy moves from one trophic level to the next? _____________

18. From your animal habitat research, describe 2 of the animals you wrote down and ways to improve their
habitat.