Succession+Activity

__**Directions**__: Write your name, today's date, and the class period on the upper right corner of the paper. Write the title "Succession Activity" on the upper left corner of the paper. Answer all of the following questions on loose-leaf paper. You do not need to write the question. However, be sure to number each answer clearly. Read all the directions and be sure to visit all the web links as indicated. When visiting the web links, make sure you read all the information and look over all of the images and animations. Finally, if you have head phones plug them in and listen to the narrations the accompany a few of the animations.

@http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2128/2179441/28_03.html Visit the link above and look to the top left menu, click on part 1 first and watch the animation, then answer the following questions: 1. Is a glacier and example of primary or secondary succession? Why? 2. Describe the pattern of primary succession the Glacier Bay area. Are all of the regions of the bay at same stage of succession process? What factors might explain this? 3. What is the general pattern between the direction of glacial retreat and stage of primary succession? 4. Compare and contrast the general plant communities from the far North and upper portions of Glacier Bay vs. the middle and lower bay areas of Glacier Bay. 5. How is the presence or absence of soil critical to identifying an area as either primary or secondary succession?

@http://www.wiley.com/college/strahler/0471480533/animations/ch23_animations/animation1.html Visit the link above and answer the following questions: 6. Is the story of bog succession and example of secondary or primary succession? Why 7. What are some characteristics of a “bog” area? 8. Describe how water is diverted and how that contributes to the death of trees and many plants. 9. How is the bog in the animation eventually changed into a bog forest?

@http://ecoplexity.org/node/219 Visit the link above and answer the following questions: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">10. What is the disturbance illustrated in this animation? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">11. Is this an example of secondary or primary succession? Why? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">12. Over what time period does the course of succession take place in this temperate forest example? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">13. Describe what happens in the post disturbance phase from 1-20 after the initial disturbance. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">14. Over time describe what happens to the complexity/biodiversity of the temperate forest over the course of hundreds of years after the initial disturbance.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px;">@http://www.ecoplexity.org/?q=node/496 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px;">Ecoplexity- Forest Succession Animation: Place the cursor within the animation and click in it; now you should be able to hit the space bar to advance to the next slide. You can scroll over some of the items in the animation for pop-ups that have more information. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px;">15. Write a bulleted list that describes the ecological succession that is illustrated and explained within the eight slides.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://www.caryinstitute.org/science-program/research-projects/buell-small-succession-study <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Visit the link above and answer the following questions: Make sure to look at the map and pictures at the bottom of the page after reading the basics of the Buell study on the webpage. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">16. Describe the time associated with Buell small succession study as compared to an example of primary succession. Which takes longer? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">17. In general describe the progression of plant species in the secondary succession process. That is, which plants are first, second, third, forth, etc., all the way up to the formation of the climax community.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Original Source: B. Bodas- Torrey Pines High School- San Diego California