Bare surface
After the ice melted, this is what the surface of BC looked like in many areas: just bare sand, gravel and boulders. Very few species of plants can live on such a surface, but some can. Without plants, very few animals can live in such a place—there is no food for them, nor are there…![Bare surface](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Image-6-Bare-surface-KMarr-RBCM-480x360.jpg)