Q: What is the term for the process in which an area that has never before been colonized changes through time?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Ecological succession is the process in which a community changes through time. Primary succession occurs in an area that has never before been colonized. Secondary succession occurs in a formerly inhabited area that was disturbed.

 Choices:

- continuous succession

- environmental succession

- colony succession

- ecological succession


A:
ecological succession