A pine forest on the coast is destroyed by a tsunami. After the tsunami small plants began to grow followed by some small trees and shrubs. Eventually over a time period of 75 years, the pines return and over the next 25 years, oak trees replace the pine trees.

In this scenario, what is the tsunami?

Question 1 options:

Secondary Succession

Primary Succession

Climax Community

Disturbance

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Cecilia Lee

Biology

4 January, 12:54

A pine forest on the coast is destroyed by a tsunami. After the tsunami small plants began to grow followed by some small trees and shrubs. Eventually over a time period of 75 years, the pines return and over the next 25 years, oak trees replace the pine trees.

In this scenario, what is the tsunami?

Question 1 options:

Secondary Succession

Primary Succession

Climax Community

Disturbance

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Slade Ochoa · Answer 1

The answer is disturbance (biological agent) It disturbed the forest coast, which then led the forest to have a low resilience rate and grew back after a long period of time. but instead of pine, there was oak trees.