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.