WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE

• Primary Succession is new bare rocks or new land.
• Secondary Succession is where plants grow back on disturbed land.

PIONEER SPECIES

• Pioneer Species are the first plants to grow in a disturbed area.
• Some pioneer species are flowers, grass, lichens, mosses.
• Grass grows in both primary and secondary succession.

FLOWERS

• Flowers are grown early in secondary succession.

LICHENS

• Lichens are found in primary succession.

MOSS

• Moss is grown during primary succession and secondary succession.

CLIMAX COMMUNITY

• Where plants stop getting taller but widen.
• Most other life of other plants has virtually stopped.
• End of Succession.
• This is a picture or an oak tree that has reached its climax.

CLIMAX

• These rainforest trees have fully grown and are a part of a climax community.

CLIMAX

• This large oak tree is hundreds of years old and is a part of the climax community also.

PRIMARY SUCCESSION

• Rocks are made over time from the rock cycle.

SMALL PLANTS

CLIMAX COMMUNITY

• The trees have stopped growing and are now in the climax community

PIONEER

• The grass and other small plants are growing on the trail before larger plants grow

PIONEER

• Moss has covered the rock.

SUCCESSION FLOW MAP