Succession

2. an interacting group of various species in a common location.
3. a plantlike organism that typically forms a low crusty, leaflike, or branching growth on rocks, walls, and trees.
6. pine, spruce, cedar, and fir.
9. happens when a climax community or intermediate community is impacted by a disturbance
14. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
16. plants that germinate, flower, set seed, and die all in one season.
19. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
20. the species that first colonize new habitats created by disturbance

1. fires, insect outbreaks, disease epidemics, droughts, floods, hurricanes, windstorms, landslides, avalanches, and volcanic eruptions are all________
4. when a new patch of land is created or exposed for the first time.
5. An ecological community in which populations of plants or animals remain stable and exist in balance with each other and their environment
7. oak, maple, cherry, walnut, and mahogany.\
8. the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time
10. plants that can live for three or more growing seasons
11. a living organism that shapes its environment
12. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
13. a flower of an uncultivated variety or a flower growing freely without human intervention.
15. a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after the other.
17. vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop.
18. small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.