1. What changes do you notice in your plants this week? Describe the overall appearance of your plant. The difference is that are group plant grow a lot seance we plant it.

2. How do your plants participate in the movement of water in the biosphere? How do your plants' roles in the water cycle relate to the changes you observed in your plants this week? The plant suck up they water and that in the water cycle and it relate to the changes because the plant sucks the water in the soil and the air.
3. How do your plants participate in the movement of carbon in the biosphere?  How do your plants' roles in the carbon cycle relate to the changes you observed in your plants this week? The plant participate in movement of carbon cycle by taking air from the earth and providing it for food for itself. It relate in our observation by growing heath and strong.
4. How do your plants participate in the movement of nitrogen in the biosphere?  How do your plants' roles in the nitrogen cycle relate to the changes you observed in your plants this week? It participate in the movement of nitrogen by taking in what we breath out and without nitrogen it wont grow and it will die.

1. What are some abiotic factors on which your plant depends for its survival? What about biotic factors that affect your plant? Describe some of these factors.  Same abiotic factors is water because present in the plants  to remain healthy, soil because its a combination of all difference organic and inorganic matter.
2. How do you know your plants are engaged in competition? For what are your plants competing, and who is the competition?  You'll know if your plant is engaged in competition whenever two niches overlap, competition in resources  by two organisms.
3. How are "winners" and "losers" determined in this struggle? Is it always so clear cut who "wins" and who "loses?" What makes that determination complicated sometimes?  You can determined who's the winners and losers by seeing who has more resources and who has more nutrients. You can tell who's the winners and losers by looking at the outside of plant and if they produce food u can see which one looks healthier.
4. Describe other types of interaction (besides competition) in which your plants are involved. Make sure to explain how this interaction affects each organism involved. It can also be a parasitism because the plant effects other plaint by getting the same resources.  
5. What evidence is there in the garden that succesion (or something like it) is occurring in the garden ecosystem? Does it seem more like primary or secondary succession? It seems more like secondary succession because it was growing from somewhere and it wasn't growing from a places where a seed can't grow from like a hot place and a really cold places.

An Ecological Analysis of the Garden and your Plants

1. What are some abiotic factors on which your plant depends for its survival? What about biotic factors that affect your plant? Describe some of these factors. Plants depend on a few crucial abiotic factors. Those factors being soil/dirt, water, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, etc. Plants need these abiotic factors because they are needed for photosynthesis. Without photosynthesis plants won't grow, and will cause it to eventually die. There are a few biotic factors that affect our plant. Those factors being other plants, insects/bugs, humans, etc. Other plants affect our plant because
2. How do you know your plants are engaged in competition? For what are your plants competing, and who is the competition? I know that our plant is competing with other plants because if weren't our plant would of been way bigger. Our plants are competing for space, water, oxygen, nutrients, etc. The competition is the other plants that are in the planting box.
3. How are "winners" and "losers" determined in this struggle? Is it always so clear cut who "wins" and who "loses?" What makes that determination complicated sometimes? Winners and losers are determined on who gets the most nutrients and needed resources. The plant that gets more nutrients are considered the winners because they get to grow the most. It can be subtle who the winner and who the loser is. It can because you can see on the outside, but also things are happening inside the plant that we can't see.
4. Describe other types of interaction (besides competition) in which your plants are involved. Make sure to explain how this interaction affects each organism involved. There are multiple types of interaction. There is Parasitism, Commensalism, and Mutualism. Parasitism is when one organism lives in or on another organism and harms the host. Commensalism is when one organism benefits and the other is not helped or harmed. Mutualism is when both species benefit from the relationship.
5. What evidence is there in the garden that succesion (or something like it) is occurring in the garden ecosystem? Does it seem more like primary or secondary succession? There is evidence that garden succession is happeing because my plant is growing very well, and it looks pretty healthy. Secondary succession is happening because the plants are already growing from something. Primary succession is when something grows out of nothing, usually when there is a lava flow

Biogeochemical Cycles and Your Plants

1. What changes do you notice in your plants this week? Describe the overall appearance of your plant. My cabbage plant has made a huge growth in the last week. The biggest change that I see is the overall size of the plant. It has very large round leaves that stretch out from the center of the plant.
2. How do your plants participate in the movement of water in the biosphere? How do your plants' roles in the water cycle relate to the changes you observed in your plants this week? My plant does play a big role in the movement of water in the biosphere. They suck up the water that is in the air. They then use that water that they sucked up to make food. It relates to the changes because it used that water for food, and this in turn caused the cabbage plant to grow.
3. How do your plants participate in the movement of carbon in the biosphere?  How do your plants' roles in the carbon cycle relate to the changes you observed in your plants this week? Plants are very important in the movement of carbon in the biosphere. They suck up any carbon that they can get. They use that sucked up carbon to make food for itself. It relates to the changes in the plant because it got bigger. It got bigger because it used the carbon as food. 
4. How do your plants participate in the movement of nitrogen in the biosphere?  How do your plants' roles in the nitrogen cycle relate to the changes you observed in your plants this week? Plants need nitrogen in order to grow. It is very crucial for a plant to have nitrogen because nitrogen is needed for photosynthesis to happen. Without photosynthesis the plant won't grow, and eventually die.