Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Assignment #4

    There are a few factors that affects our plant. First is abiotic factors, this is what the plant relies on. Some are the sun, soil, water, and depending on how the weather is like.  These factors help the plant sprout and maintain healthy. Another is biotic factors that affect the plant When other plants competing  with our plants for nutrients. Also, the bugs eating the leaves to corrupt the plant. In addition, all this global warming lately is destroying our air and blocking the sun for our plant to nourish. But, there are some insects that do help the plant. Mostly they try to eat the plant or take its resources.
    It is clear to me that the plants in competition because it makes sense that two different species are living in the same area and want the same resources.  All the plants are competing for nutrients, territory, sun, and water. Other competitors would be weeds, other plant, trees, and bugs.
    The vanquisher  is the one that gets lives to grow and reproduce. The opposition ends up dying and provides more nutrients to the others that continue to live. On occasion the loser is nit always benifictial. Sometimes its just the winner lives and the loser dies. Other times its unclear who wins and loses because they both still live and survive but one flourishes much more than the other.
   The plant is also in a symbiosis relationship. In this with relationship is Bees. They come and pollinate the plant so it can create offsprings. With that the bee also gets food, so that would be a mutualism relationship. Other relationships include parasitism, like weeds.  The weeds root go into the plant and steal its nutrients so it cant grow. All of this contributes to how the plant will develop. 
   There is secondary succession happening in the garden. I know this because there was soil already there. I also observed the weeds spread everywhere.  We witness this when plants sprout up besides the ones we planted. Now they can be a community.
                                    Divina Rodriguez

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