Week 8/9 Homework - Due Tuesday 10/14

Use these problems to serve as a review for the Unit 2 test that we are having on Tuesday, October 10th.

1. Define the following words:

• Producer
• Herbivore
• Carnivore
• Scavenger
• Decomposer

2. What does the 10% rule mean?

3. What is the difference between a primary and secondary secondary succession event?

4. What are the first types of organisms that inhabit an area after a succession event?

5. What is the difference between mutualism, commensalsim, and parasitism?

6. Describe why natural selection would create the many different types of bird beaks. 

7. In the picture below, the dotted line is the carrying capacity and the line that letter C is pointing to is the population size. Explain why the population  rises above and dips below the carrying capacity multiple times.

8. Name three different ways in which carbon is cycled through the environment. 

If you have any questions, fee free to email me for help!