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Describe some events that could start primary succession and list the succession of plant communities in primary succession.

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Primary succession occurs when a natural disaster like an EQ, volcanic eruption, or flood, occurs to an area where there is no plant or animal life. The first organisms to appear are lichens, which over a long period of tome, will begin to form soil.
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