1. Which type of forest are these?B D E C

2. Forest types, disturbance, succession
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3. How are forests classified?
Evergreen or Deciduous
Coniferous or Broad-leafed
Dry or Wet
Tropical, Temperate or Boreal

4. What is a forest biome? Many similar ecosystems throughout the world.
Individual  population  community  Ecosystem  Biome

5. What is an ecosystem?
The nonliving (abiotic) and living (biotic) components of an environment working together.

6. What is an ecological disturbance?
an event that results in a sustained disruption of an ecosystem's structure and function.

7. What are examples of disturbances to forest ecosystems?
Logging
Urbanization
Agriculture
Overpopulation of a single species/hunting
i.e. the deer population
Invasive species
Fire
Flood

8. What is succession?
“more-or-less predictable and orderly changes in the composition or structure of an ecological community.”

9. What is primary succession?
Succession on an area that has never been occupied by a community.

10. What is secondary succession?
Succession on an area which had its community removed (by disturbance).