The Story of the Seed

Blog #4 1) Some abiotic factors my plant depends on are the sun, soil, and water because the sun gives the plant energy, the soil gives the plant its nutrients, and the water makes sure the plant is hydrated and some biotic factors the plant depends on are us, bacteria, and little mammals to distribute it's seed or bees to distribute it's pollen. 2) I know that my plant is in competition with other plants because they all have the same niche which is to produce food and to do that they have to compete with each other to get there resources and be able to make food and reproduce my plant's competition are the other plants in the garden bed from period 5. 3)The winners are identified by how healthy they are and if they reproduced and the losers are the unhealthy looking ones who look like they are about to die and haven't reproduced yet. Sometimes it can be hard to identify if all the plants look healthy or if all look unhealthy. 4) They are als

                                                             Blog Post #3 Biogeochemical Cycles 1) Our brassica oleracea this week looks like it has gotten bigger. It looks more green and colorful then the last few weeks I got pictures of them. 2) When the water gets into the soil and plants the moisture goes through the plants from roots, then it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere. 3) Our plant participates in the carbon cycle in the biosphere because carbon photosynthesizes into plants from the air and then the plant breaks it down and the carbon respires to the air. 4)In the nitrogen cycle the soil bacteria changes ammonia and ammonium ions to nitrate ions. Nitrogen ions turns back to nitrogen gas.

1. In the last week, I've noticed that our plant grew a little bit more, and the stems started to change from green to a purplish color. I also noticed that the leaves of the plant are starting to get small points on the edges. 2. Our plant was part of the water cycle by absorbing the water that comes from rain or other things, and will eventually be eaten by our group. 3. Our plant is part of the carbon cycle because it absorbs the carbon, and will get eaten when it gets to a big enough size, passing on its carbon. 4. Out plant absorbs nitrates from the ground and will pass them on when it dies or gets eaten.DDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDX

Blog #3 1) The changes I noticed this week was that the plant did grow a little, but it looked pretty dry like it needed some water and I also noticed that one of the stems with a leave on it had fallen and was really dry. Today  2) Their roles in the water cycle is transpiration of plants which makes the water go up in the sky for condensation. After seeing my plant today I guess it just did this process because of how dry it looked when I went to go see it.(View picture above) 3) Their roles in the carbon cycle is photosynthesis and plant respiration which lets carbon into the air. The plants are always doing plant respiration and photosynthesis so I don't think it had any affect on its physical appearance. 4) The role of my plant in the nitrogen cycle is plant consumption and organic residues which means they ate nitrogen and threw it out as organic matter. I think the fallen stem that fell off the plant is part of the organic matter and the plant will use it