Succession Online Interactive
Directions: This worksheet accompanies the Bioman Succession Interactive located at:
https://biomanbio.com/HTML5GamesandLabs/EcoGames/succession_interactive.html
You can also do a Google Search for “Bioman Succession Interactive”.
You must use the interactive to answer the questions below.
Follow the instructions below and work your way through the interactive. When you complete it, submit your
work on Teams.
Click “Primary Succession”
1. What caused the disturbance of the ecosystem in this example of primary succession?
2. What does the environment consist of after the disturbance?
3. Define succession.
4. What is primary succession?
5. Click on “Continue” until you reach the screen to select “Grasses” and “Add Grasses to My Island.” Why
can grasses not survive on the island yet?
6. Click on “Lichens.” Define a lichen.
7. Review Time. It says lichens are a “mutualistic symbiosis.” What does this mean?
8. Review Time. What trophic level in a food chain would lichen occupy? How do you know?
9. Click “Add Lichens to My Island.” Define pioneer species.
10. What role do lichens play in the environment during primary succession?
11. Click “Primary Consumers” and “Add Primary Consumers to my Island.” Why do primary consumers not
survive yet on the island?
12. Click “Mosses” and “Add Mosses to My Island.” What role do mosses play in the environment during
primary succession?
13. Click “Grasses” and “Add Grasses to Island”. Why do grasses build up the soil quickly?
14. Click “Primary Consumers”. Define primary consumer.
15. What role do primary consumers play in producing soil?
16. Is it now possible for primary consumers to occupy your island? Why?
17. Click “Tertiary Consumers” and “Add Tertiary Consumer to My Island.” Describe what happens to the
tertiary consumer?
18. Click on “Trees” and “Add Trees to My Island.” Why do trees not yet colonize the island?
19. Click on “Flowers” and “Add Flowers to My Island.” How do the seeds that grow flowers arrive on the
island?
20. What type of animal do flowers need to continue to grow?
21. Click on “Pollinators” and “Add Pollinators to My Island” What type of relationship do flowers and
bees have? Why?
22. Click on “Bushes” and “Add Bushes to My Island.” What has built up the soil enough that allows
the bushes to thrive on your island?
23. Click on “Secondary Consumers.” What is a secondary consumer ecological niche?
24. Add secondary consumer to your island. How do these secondary consumers arrive on the island?
25. Click on “Tertiary Consumers” and “Add Tertiary Consumers to My Island.” Describe what happens.
26. Click on “Trees” and “Add Trees to My Island”. What resources do trees and other smaller plants
compete for?
27. Click on “Tertiary Consumers” and “Add Tertiary Consumer to My Island.” Why do tertiary consumers
now thrive on your island?
28. Define Climax Community.
Click “Secondary Succession” For this section, you will have to click through the species and trophic levels
to determine the order of succession.
1. Secondary succession occurs in an area with
and
2. What caused the disturbance in the ecosystem in this example of secondary succession?
3. What are some causes of environmental disturbances that lead to rebuilding by secondary succession?
4. What are the pioneer species for secondary succession?
5. Are the pioneer species for secondary succession the same as primary succession?
6. Continue to build your ecosystem as it progresses through secondary succession. Record the orderly
progression of your ecosystem below starting with the pioneer species and ending with the climax
community.
a. Pioneer Species THEN
b.
THEN
c.
THEN
d.
THEN
e.
THEN
f.
THEN
g.
THEN
h.
(Climax Community)
7. Which type of succession occurs quicker? Why?
Click “Quiz”
1. Complete all questions in the quiz.
2. Take a screenshot (Snipping Tool) of your score and paste it below.
3. Your grade is for participation for this quiz--it does not matter what you earn on it. What matters is what
you LEARN from it!
