SCX p2

Question 1

bring energy from non-living sources into the community

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Producers

Question 2

eat the producers, which make them herbivores in most communities

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Primary consumers

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eat the primary consumers, which make them carnivores

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Secondary consumers

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eat the secondary consumers and followed by Terminal consumer

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Tertiary consumers

Question 5

What do you call a linear network of links in the food web starting from producers’ and ends at the
predator species?

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Food Chain

Question 6

What refers to a field of science which concerns about energy flow through living systems? It is also
the study of energy relationships and energy transformations and transductions in living organisms.

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Bioenergetics

Question 7

It is a natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

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Food Web

Question 8

What type of food chain is referred to when an autotrophic organism occupy the first feeding level?

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Grazing food chain

Question 9

It is a graphical model of energy flow in a community.

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Energy Pyramid

Question 10

These are the plants and animals that first colonize a newly exposed habitat.

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Pioneer Species

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This succession begins in habitats where communities were entirely or partially destroyed by some

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Secondary

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It is the final succession stage of constant species composition which persists unchanged until

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Climax Community

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This term refers to the change in the composition of species over time.

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Ecological Succession

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It is a type of succession that occurs on substrates that has never been previously supported living

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Primary

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is a series of progressive changes in the species that make up a community over time.

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Ecological succession

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newly exposed or newly formed rock is colonized by living things for the first time.

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primary succession,

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an area that was previously occupied by living things is disturbed, then re-colonized following the disturbance. FAQs

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secondary succession,

Question 18

is often described by the series of plant and animal communities that inhabit a region over
time. It occurs in some regions when climates change over thousands of years.

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Succession

Question 19

are the plant
and animals that are first to colonize a newly exposed habitat.

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Pioneer species

Question 20

is the change in the composition of species over time.

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Ecological succession

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is the final succession stage of constant species composition.

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climax community

Question 22

occurs on substrates that never previously
supported living things

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Primary Succession

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on the other hand begins in habitats where communities were entirely or partially destroyed by some kind of damaging event such as fire, floods, overgrazing, and deforestation.

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Secondary Succession

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is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment. These harmful
materials are called pollutants.

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Environmental pollution

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It is where pollution comes directly from one specific location.

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Point Source Pollution

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It is the pollution that comes from large areas.

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Non-point Source Pollution

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Reduces the quantity and quality of fresh water that is available for drinking and other necessities of human beings

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Water pollution

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Natural air pollution- the natural impurities of air in the atmosphere include soil particles, dust and pollen grain particles.

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Air pollution

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Occurs when the pollutants causing the pollution reduce the quality of the soil and convert the soil inhabitable for microorganisms and macro organisms living in the soil.

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Land/Soil pollution

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Noise is random or unwanted sound. Unwanted sound can be caused by any kind of sound, tones or harmonic sound.

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Noise pollution

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These results when excessive and unregulated amount of food additives, medicines, drugs, alcohols, and cosmetics are introduced in the body.

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Personal Pollution

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This results when there is an overexposure to cosmic rays, ultra violet rays, infrared rays, and rays from radioactive materials.

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Radiation Pollution

Question 33

A forest made up of tall trees with branch-less trunks. These types of forest are the major sources of timber and other forest products.

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Dipterocarp

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These forests are a tropical coniferous forest ecoregion of the Philippines in the western Pacific Ocean.

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Pine

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It occupies about 165,000 hectares of the total land forest area of the country. Although this classification of forest falls under the Dipterocarp, it is classified differently because of its large total forest area.

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Molave

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This forest is usually found in some coastal areas. The Dungon, Agoho and Banulad trees are common which is endemic to the Philippine islands.

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Beach

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These forests are found on the tidal flats of the coastal areas. They are good sources of charcoals, firewoods and tannin. The mangrove ecosystem is a nursery ground. They serve as buffer against typhoons and waves

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Mangrove

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Also known as cloud forest found throughout the higher parts of the mountains and inhabited by many of the endemic wildlife of the Philippines.

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Mossy

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is known as the “green hell” because of its harsh environment, with about 80kg of green mass per square meter

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rainforest