Ecological Succession

Event:

Major flooding destroys a residential area.

Houses are cleared away and land remains

unused.

Biome/Location:

Coastal region of Mississippi

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

Undersea volcano erupts and, over time,

builds up an island.

Biome/Location:

Tropical area near the equator in the

Pacific Ocean

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

Intensive logging occurs until all that

remains of a forest are the redwood and

cedar tree stumps.

Biome/Location:

Temperate forest in northwestern Oregon

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

A forest fire (started by a camper) rips

through a portion of the Appalachian

Mountains, leaving only the charred

remains of the trees behind.

Biome/Location:

Deciduous Forest in the Eastern US

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

A hurricane hits just south of Corpus

Christi, Texas and completely floods the

local farmlands.

Biome/Location:

Coastal region of South Texas

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

Sheets of ice (glacier) melt away, leaving

behind barren rocks.

Biome/Location:

Northern region of central Canada

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

To make ends meet, locals in a village near

the Amazon have “slashed and burned” ¼

of the rain forest that surrounds their land.

Biome/Location:

Tropical rain forest in northern South

America.

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

Mt. Saint Helens erupts in Washington State

covering the mountain in hot ash and

debris. (no new volcanic rock is covering the soil)

Biome/Location:

Temperate rain forest in Washington State

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

A devastating tsunami hits the Japanese

coastline, flooding areas as far inland as 12

miles.

Biome/Location:

Temperate deciduous forest in Japan

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary

Event:

Oil executives decide to discontinue drilling

in an oil field and return the land to

“mother nature”.

Biome/Location:

Taiga (boreal forest) in northern Alaska

Which type of succession is this?

• primary

• secondary