You are on vacation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and you observe that a massive forest fire has burned all the trees off the side of the mountain. The type of succession that occurs following the fire is

A) secondary succession.
B) tertiary succession.
C) primary succession.
D) primary soil leaching.
E) facilitated succession.

Secondary Succession

The process of ecological recovery in an area where a biological community was partially removed but where soil remains.

Primary Succession

Ecological succession that occurs in an environment in which new substrate devoid of vegetation and usually lacking soil, such as a lava flow or area left from retreated glacier, is deposited.

Forest Fire

Uncontrolled fire occurring in woodland or bush areas, which can have both destructive and beneficial effects on ecosystems.