SCI 275 Week 3 Checkpoint Succession and Natural Selection

CheckPoint: Succession and Natural Selection

Resources: Ch. 6 of Visualizing Environmental Science and Ch. 6 Succession animation

Due Date: Day 5 [Individual forum]

View the Ch. 6 Succession animation located under the Week Three Materials section of your aXcess page.

Post a total of 200 to 300 words in response to the following items:

View the succession of the ecosystem in the Succession animation. Is it primary or secondary succession? Explain your answer.

Respond to question 9 under the Critical and Creative Thinking Questions on p. 153 of the text. Review Ch. 6 (pp. 144-145) on natural selection to help you with your response. If you need additional help with your hypothesis, refer to the following article to see an explanation of how evolution could have occurred in a population of