Prompt Read about early
warning systems and use the topographic map and road map of Virginia to answer the following questions.
A hurricane watch for a category five storm has been issued for the coast of Virginia.
• What natural disasters could be associated with this storm in coastal regions?
What would be the best emergency action plan?
• What would be a safe evacuation route if needed?

they each offer a fresh glut of resources to the organisms that can arrive and exploit them. as individuals and new species continue to appear, they actively and passively alter the environment. competition for shared resources increases, local abiotic and biotic conditions shift, and the relative abundances of species change accordingly. the process is called ecological succession, and it is one of the earliest and most well-known concepts in ecology.