Question

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

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.