Blog Assignment 5

Our plant is definatey alive considering how much i has grown in the last two weeks. and the comparison of five weeks ago of when they were about an inch or so to now at about 3 inches. there is no direct evidence that they are eating but they are growing. and just by that we can see that they are alive and eating.

blog assignment 4

an abiotic factor that would affect the life of my plant would be the soil and water. some biotic factors would be insects, and other plants that provide oxygen and nitrogen. the soil affects the plant by absorbing the water for the plants. and the insects by what they transfer on to the plants, and what they take from the plants. the plants must be involved in competition from there being so many in one space. the plants compete with eachother for food and water. The plants aren't much of the losers because they make chemicals that they defend themselves with. For Instance, A catrerpillar feeds of a plant. that plant might create a poison chemical that could kill the caterpillar. The Plants are also involved in another interaction that is called parasitism. where one organism eats off another and is harmed. It seems more like secondary succession because other plants have been planted there so that environment knows the procedure of how to grow plants because it has experienced it already.

Blog Assignment 3

The plant got bigger in the last week. It looked dry. There was appearance of insects feeding off it. The plat uses water to grow. The water contributed to how it looks now. The plats make the carbon that cannot be used useful again. the carbon like water contributed to its growth. the plants are active with the nitrogen cycle by making it useful for us. the plants to benefit from the carbon after it is useful again. so that is what made it grow.