Question

One of the following areas is an example of secondary succession if succession takes place in/an
a. Abandoned farmland
b. Newly cooled larvae
c. New created pond
d. Bare rock

Answer 1

Hint: The process of a secondary succession can reestablish an ecosystem's climax communities in as few as around fifty years. The animal populations in the ecosystems are also established more quickly during the secondary succession.

Complete answer:
The abandoned farmland is the area which was colonised earlier but at the present, it has been turned into disturbed or damaged habitat so it is an example of a secondary succession as it is the continuous changes of evolving community changes which take place on a previously colonized, but disturbed or damaged habitat.

The areas that have been cleared from existing vegetation due to destructive events like a fire are an example for this.A good example will include the areas which have been removed of the current vegetation due to destructive damages caused by the fires.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

Additional information:
• The secondary succession is a concept that is present in an ecosystem that states it revives itself after all or a portion has been destroyed.
• The concept refers primarily to a plant life and can be the result of a natural or man-made event.
• The major primary concept given is that life was previously on the soil thus eliminating the need for the deposition of new seeds or a soil.
• Secondary succession is a much more rapid process than the primary succession because the soil and the nutrients are already available here.
• Succession can happen even in the mature or in the climax communities.
• The Secondary succession is a type of ecological activity in which the plants and the animals decolonize a habitat after an extreme disturbance, for example a devastating flood, the wildfire, the landslide, the lava flow, or human activity.

Note: Some examples of the secondary succession include the renewal of a forest after a fire since the fire itself destroys a majority of different types of trees and plant life. After many years, the plants and the vegetation had grown back in, as the nutrients, seeds and soil remained.