If you are a scientist trying to determine if an organism evolve to gradually a rapidly, how would patterns in the fossil record help you? Explain how the pattern will provide evidence to support the rate of evolution for that organism.

Fossil records help scientists understand about how and when an organism might have evolved. It also helps determine how many evolutionary changes a particular specie might have gone through.

The long-term evolutionary patterns for a specie can be determined by fossils. Fossil record will help us analyze all the evolutionary changes that a species might have gone through to evolve into a particular type.

The gradual evolution of a species can be predicted if the fossil records show small, increment changes in the fossil patterns.

On the other hand, rapid evolution will result when there are no intermediate fossils depicted for a specie. That specie might have aroused due to a sudden change.

primary succession begins with a bare rock and ends with a forest secondary succession begins after a natural disaster where there is a temporary setback after a forest fire or local destruction, but the surrounding area can fill in