Please help me answer these questions. I need a quick answer please.



1. True or False: Most of the forests you know started out as barren rock piles without any life?


2. The formation of this land is often the result of what two things?


3. The first organisms to move into these harsh growing conditions are known as?


4. True or False: Soil begins to form from the rocks only through the process of Erosion.


5. Decomposition of pioneer species provides what to soil?


6. What is formed during the third phase of primary succession?


7. Annuals only live for how many years?


8. What are two examples of Perenials?


9. True or False: Perennials grow year-round?


10. What is not an example of Softwood trees?


11. Pick all the examples of Hardwood trees *

* Pine

*Oak

* Fur

*Maple

*Elm


12. The ecosystem continues to change until eventually this final ____ is reached.


13. The process of a barren land being colonized by plants for the first time is known as...


14. True or False: Primary succession takes 100 years


15. What is the foundation of any ecosystem?


16. Why are plants needed first in an ecosystem?


17. How do Biomass and Biodiversity change during the process of ecological succession?


18. What can destroy a Climax Community?


19. True or False: A forest must be recovering from a disaster to be going through Primary Succession?


20. Is secondary succession faster or slower than primary succession?