plant update 4

As our plants get older, they are constantly growing and their leaves are turning even darker!  Some abiotic factors that help our plants grow are; sunlight, water, soil and climate. Sunlight gives our plants every to fuel itself and continue growing.  Water helps keep our plants hydrated.  Soil helps our plants grow and germinate and climate can greatly affect our plants with wind and precipitation.  Some biotic factors that help our plants are; other organisms, such as insects, predators, and disease.  Disease and predators and negatively affect our plants because they can kill them.  But, other organisms can help by pollinating or even bacteria can fight off diseases.

I know our plants are involved in competition because they need to compete for sunlight and water with other plants in the plant bed.

Winners and losers are determined when you see which plant grew the tallest, strongest, germinated faster and greenest.  It also is obvious if a plant lives or dies.  From the beginning it is not a clear cut about who will win, but sometimes after multiple weeks you can tell.

Another interaction our plants are involved in is predation.  This process occurs when one organism traps and eats the other.  Many different bugs and bacteria are they predators and our plants are the prey.

Some evidence in are garden can show that secondary succession is occurs.  This evidence is the amount of plants growing in the garden because all the plants need soil and secondary succession only starts with soil.