FOREST ECOLOGY
FOREST SUCCESSION
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Question
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Because the volcano wiped the entire city off the map.
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Because the area had undergone primary succession.
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Because it was buried under lava.
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Because the area had undergone secondary succession.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly 2, 000 years ago, Pompeii was a bustling city located in what is now southern Italy. But in the summer of A.D. 79, the nearby Mount Vesuvius volcano erupted. It spewed smoke and toxic gas 20 miles into the air, which soon spread to the town.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scholars and tourists remain just as fascinated by the city’s eerie ruins-and the artifacts and bodies buried on that fateful day over 2, 000 years ago-as they were in the 18th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -In A.D. 62, a major earthquake shook Mount Vesuvius. Earthquakes continued for years as the magma chamber inside Vesuvius inflated. Finally, in August of A.D. 79, eruptions began. For 12 hours, finegrained ash, then coarse white pumice (a frothy, glass rock), and later a gray pumice, rained down on the city of Pompeii.