SUCCESSION

• Primary succession: newly formed land EX: Hawaii
• Secondary succession: land that has already existed that goes through changes EX: a forest fire
• Pioneer species: the first species to inhabit a new land EX: lichens, mosses, and grass
• Climax community: when vegetation has reached a steady state

DECOMPOSITION, MOSSES, AND LICHENS

• Decomposition is the process which something is being broken down
• Moss usually grows in wet places
• Lichen consist of algae and fungi
• Lichen usually look crusty and are white, grey, or sometimes green
• Nitrogen are in the proteins that are being broken down when decomposition occurs

PLANT ADAPTATIONS

• Evergreens stay green all year long
• Deciduos trees lose leaves during winter
• Tamarax hispida, spirae jasponica, and spirae bumalda are all types of evergreen tree
• Dogwoods, trident mapkes, and paper bark maple are all examples of deciduos trees

EROSION

• Physical, chemical, and biological are all different types of erosion
• Erosion is the wearing away of rocks and other deposits on the Earth surface

TROPISM

• Geotropism, hydrotropism, thigmotropism, and heliotropism are all different types of tropism
• Tropism is the orientation of an organism to an eternal stimulus, as light especially by growth rather than movement

ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS

PHYSICAL ADAPTATIONS

• Examples:
• How high a deer can jump
• If an animal's eyes are on the side of it's head

BEHAVORIAL

• How a deer reacts to hearing a foot step
• How any animal reacts to feeling threatened
• How a animal strategizes to get food
• How an animal protects it's cubs