BlogPost #3 Derek Koopman P.4

1.The plant specimen is growing at slow rate. The plant has started to grow larger leaves and has a small stem.

2.When we pour water on it, the water gets collected at the roots of the plant. The water travel though the plant and basically gives it energy.After that the water returns to the atmosphere. Water is usually stored inside the plant creates energy for it

3.To create oxygen the plant sucks in carbon dioxide from the air around it and through a complex series of events the carbon dioxide get created to oxygen. Oxygen is released into the atmosphere in is consumed by us and then we release carbon dioxide and so the cycle is restarted.

4.The plant is also in the carbon cycle it is related to it because it uses it in that oxygen cycle. Carbon is also created from factories and other things such as cars, planes and,other transportations.

BlogPost #4 Monique Perez-Durand P.4

     The abiotic factors that my plant depends on are sunlight, nitrogen, carbon dioxide , and water. Some biotic factors that affect my plants are animals and insects, competition for space with other organisms, and mold and bacteria. The way abiotic factors affect my plant like how it needs sunlight as well as water or it will die, it takes in nitrogen and carbon and stores it in its cells helping it to grow. Some of the way biotic factors affect the plant are animals like rodents or humans or insects eating them. Competition with other organisms for space witch can determine how large the plant grows or how much sunlight it takes in, and how much sunlight the plants it gets also effects it.
     How crowded the area the plant is in depends on how large and how much nutrients it takes in. If it is too crowded then the plant competes with other organisms around it for f other space. How much space it gets is important because if other plants take up the space the plant may not see enough sunlight or nutrients from the soil.  

     "Winners" and "losers" are determined in this struggle by which plant grows larger and is more healthy or by which one survives. It may not always be clear who "wins" or who "loses" because it might not be  a one lives and one loses situation but can be determined be which one flourishes.     Neutralism: when both species benefit from interaction
     I think secondary succesion is taking place in the garden after last year's winter season.

BlogPost #3 Monique Perez-Durand P.4

Student Blog Post Assignment #3

Monique Perez-Durand

Period 4

     My plant since being planted has grow much. It went from a thin weak plant that could not hold itself up to a thick stemmed plant with large leaves.

     Every time the plant is watered the water seeps into the soil and the soil stays moist. The plant's stem seeps up the water from the soil and caries it throughout the plant. The plant gives off water through its leaves and goes back into the biosphere The plants get the same amount of constant water as they did before but was in a confined space. Now it is in an open space with the same amount of water and has sunlight so it can grow freely.

     Plants pull carbon dioxide out of the air storing it in its cells and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. The plant grew because the carbon it took in had to go somewhere so the plant stored it in the cells of its leaves and stems.

     Plants also remove nitrogen from organic matter like decomposing plants and animal matter from the ground and stores it in its cells. Because there is some much decomposing plant matter from past classes in the garden there is a lot of nitrogen in the ground. So because the plant stores nitrogen in its cells it grows