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The melting and subsequent retreat of glaciers is a long process that may take centuries. Why is something so slow considered an extreme disturbance?(1 point)

They strip away trees and destroy everything as they move.

They will never grow back after they melt.

They move giant boulders and change the physical shape of the landscape.

They leave behind bare rock with no established ecosystem.

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They leave behind bare rock with no established ecosystem.

(This is extreme because glaciers remove soil and organisms, resetting the environment and requiring primary succession.)