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A volcano erupts and sends lava spewing down its sides creating land as it falls into a lake and hardens. And then, a small plant spore drifts by in the wind and lands in the destroyed land. This spore, given only water and sunlight will grow into small plants, like mosses and lichens. Slowly, as life accumulates over centuries other organisms invade the land. Primary succession occurs on a newly exposed land or rock, like hardened lava, on which new life forms. A secondary succession (for your curiosity) involves the same process as primary succession, but it involves an ecological growth on an area of land where life exists no more, but where life has existed.
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What are examples of primary and secondary succesion in tundra?
Primary succession is one of two types of ecological succession and biological succession of plant life, and occurs in an environment in which new substrate, devoid of vegetation and usually lacking soil, is deposited (for example a lava flow). (The other type of succession, secondary succession, occurs on substrate that previously supported vegetation before a disturbance destroyed the plant life.) In primary succession pioneer species like mosses, lichen, algae and fungus as well as other abiotic factors like wind and water start to "normalize" the habitat.
What are the examples of time sequence of analogies?
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What is an example of primary research?
a) Information from the internet
What is a primary pollutant?
Primary polluters are air pollutants that come directly from a source. A volcanic eruption is an example of a primary pollutant.
Is blue a primary or secondary colour?
Primary
What is primary succesion?
A primary succesion is an area that has not been previously occupied by a community.
The formation of the hawaiian islands is an example of what?
this is called primary succesion
Is Hawaii a secondary or primary succession?
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What the difference between primary and secondary succesion?
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What type of succession is the current ecosystem in?
It depends on just where the ecosystem is located.
The first species to poulat an area where primary succesion is taking place are called?
primary species Heavonbound says: no actulley a pioneer species.
What begins in a place without any soil and can take hundreds of years s of years after a fire?
Primary Succesion.
Succesion that takes place in a forest that has been destroyed by fire is an example of what?
Secondary succession
Why succesion accurs?
Succesion accurs is nature. This is plants and animals.
What is patrimonial properties?
property own by succesion
How does a ecosystem transition from primary succession to secondary succession?
Secondary succesion is the succession that occurs after the initial succession has been disrupted, and some plants and animals still exist. It is usually faster than primary succession.
When ecological succesion slows down what has formed?
precipatation
