Area codes are for phone numbers. Area codes are the first 3 digits of the phone number. Usually represent the area ppl live in. Example: (213) 555-6666 --> area code 213. Zip codes are for mailing addresses.
Succession is the process by which new community gets established at an area which had been uninhabited. The community which gets established at the site is called climax community. It is the aggregation of changes of species structure in an ecological community over time.
As opposed to the first, primary succession, secondary succession is a process started by an event that reduces an already established ecosystem to a smaller population of species, and as such secondary succession occurs on preexisting soil whereas primary succession usually occurs in a place lacking soil.