In British English a receipt is a piece of paper that you get in a shop when you buy something, but in American English the more usual term for this is sales slip. I wrote her a receipt for the money.
Primary succession is the series of community changes which occur on an entirely new habitat which has never been colonized before. Examples of such habitats would include newly exposed or deposited surfaces, such as landslips, volcanic lava and debris, elevated sand banks and dunes, quarried rock faces.
Two different types of succession, primary and secondary, have been distinguished. Primary succession occurs in essentially lifeless areasâregions in which the soil is incapable of sustaining life as a result of such factors as lava flows, newly formed sand dunes, or rocks left from a retreating glacier. Secondary succession occurs in areas where a community that previously existed has...