Succession and Natural Selection

Resources: Ch. 6 of Visualizing Environmental Science and theCh. 6 Succession Animation
View the Ch. 6 Succession animation located under the Week Three Materials section of your student Web 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 in Chapter 6 of the text. Review Ch. 6 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 mussels:http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/060901_mussels
Upload your CheckPoint to the Assignments Link by the end of Day 5 (Friday).