This week, in class, we learned what natural succession is. Natural succession is the process where species grow larger and stronger to make a healthy environment. The first kind of succession is primary succession. Primary succession is where a desolate and uninhabitable plot of ld is turned into a new and beautiful habitat. The process starts with pioneer species, which are the first species to find and inhabit a piece of land. Pioneer species include: lichen, fungi, moss, and algae. Those species work together to break down rocks into fresh soil. Then plants come in and fill the soil. Animals come to eat the plants and to eat eachother. Finally we have a climax community, which is a big, healthy, beautiful, habitable, and fantastic forest or other environment.

Secondary succession is very similar. It starts out with a natural or human disaster that makes an environment disapear. It takes much less time than primary succession because there is still soil. The pioneer species are usually shrubs, weeds, grasses, and bushes. Wind spreads other seeds around so that trees and flowers grow.  It eventually becomes a climax community once again.

Where and why are there completely uninhabitable places?

How often are there natural disasters in an area?

Why do the animals go to these newer unready environments?