Student blog Post Assignment #4: An Ecological Analysis of the Garden and your Plants

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   Student blog Post Assignment #4: An Ecological Analysis of the Garden and your Plants 

      1) some abiotic factors that Broccoli needs are Soil, Water, Wind, and Sun-light to survive. This affects my plant for its survival and growth. Broccoli itself is an biotic factor for being a plant. Other biotic things (which is the living organisms) The effect on plants, such as animals giving affect is where you get the three groups: producers, consumers, and decomposrs. The producers, which is at the moment our broccoli becomes an eating source for consumers (living organisms; biotic) 

2) I know our plants are engaged in the competition because their environment is shared with other plants with use the same resource for survival. 

3) Its a 50/50 chance depending on where they get their resources from. In some cases, its very possible that only some plants could "win" in surviving. The possibility of whoever wins or loses is random and isn't ever clear. You'll never know where the sun hits, or when there's rain. 

4) For the broccoli, there could be an parasitism relationship between humans and broccoli. Human eat broccoli which effects both of them since the broccoli is healthy to humans but is killing off the plants. helping only one living thing, humans.

5) With us as a class are growing the plants in the one flower bed, I'd call it an secondary succession. We help plants grow for our research as we analyze them and their growth. 

Student blog post assignment #3: Biogeochemical cycles and your Plants

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                       Student Blog Post Assignment #3: Bio geochemical Cycles and Your plants

1) our broccoli has increased its size. There is nothing to fond of its appearance although, they do look very similar to clovers which was something I didn't not expect. Their stem is very thin and three leaves attached to the stem.

2) Our plant the broccoli participates in the movement of water by the water moving through the broccoli making the plant soaks up water in their roots which helps the plants grow with transpiration. This relates to its current appearance because the water cycle helps the broccoli grow to how it looks now compared to before it even sprouted.

3) plants, like our broccoli, move carbon as a storage and exchanging. Plants cleave the carbon from the two oxygen molecules and release the oxygen back into the surrounding environment. Thats how they work during the carbon cycle movements. when looking at the broccoli's current stage, you could tell its health is staying strong with bright green.


4)the plants itself can't use nitrogen or posses it. Nitrogen Fixation helps create Nitrogen from the soil to ammonia. One its been converted, the broccoli, could later process the ammonia. this helps the plants for the cycle in growing with its soil that gives plants energy to grow.

My name is Alejandra dias Godinez. I'm originally from Pomona California, I lived in Las Vegas for a couple of years I moved to San Jose when I was around 3 or 4 years old with poth my parents. I have gardened and grown food before when I was little but it didn't really turn out so good. I'll always help my parents or grandparents garden. Like water the plants and make sure everything is going as planned. I grew flowers and fruits and vegetables. I remember that I had to make sure the plants had enough water and sunlight,it was a big responsible because you don't want what your growing to die. My uncle is a farmer he knows a lot about gardening and animals, when I go visit him there is always something knew that he grows. He has a lot of animals but mostly he tells me that his job is harder then regular job out there because he needs to make sure all of the plants and animals have enough sunlight, water, food, and much more.

About me bio

My name is Lianna Torrez. I am from San Jose. My mother and father immigrated to San Jose from South America in their teenage years. I have never Gardened before, but it has always interested me because I the process seems pretty fun and I feel like after the plant is formed and becomes a fruit or vegetable you’ll be proud of yourself and say “I did that!” “I planted that!.

  I believe my dad knows a lot about gardening. When he was younger and lived in Bolivia his family wasn’t the wealthiest in the world so instead of buying their fruits and vegetables they planted their own.

My name is Natalie Deleal. I was raised in San Jose- as was my mother. My father was born and raised in Anaheim, California till the age of 4 to which he lived in San Jose as well. Growing up, I moved to different schools quite frequently. I recall moving to 4 different Elementary schools, since I still have all my student ids up to now but I never moved out of the state.

As a little girl, I truly didn’t understand the world since I was self-absorbed. I was spoiled very much and I was very moody. Although, somethings never changed. Like how I enjoyed gardening outside with my grandmother whenever I get to see her. I recall only gardening flowers though.Yet, the experience was amazing. I’d try to visit her everyday just to see if the flowers grew. My other grandparents (on my mother’s side of the family) also grows plants. The only difference is that they grow actual food. They get most of there oranges and fruits on the trees in their backyard. Sometimes I pick out the fruits in the trees which I find fun. My great grandparents owned a farm. They would garden fruits and vegetables but they mostly took care of the animals then the gardens. I never actually got to see the farm since they died and I never actually met them since they live in Mexico but I’ve been told it’s very peaceful there and the farm was like their second home.