EcoTower Observation #1

The original animals were fish (9), crickets (5), snails (8), and worms (10). As of Friday all of our animals were still alive. We think they are still living because our EcoTower has a good source of food, oxygen, has plenty of room to move around in and the carbon, nitrogen and water cycles are all working together properly. The original plants we had were beans and algae. The beans are doing well but the algae is starting to die. We think the beans are doing well because of the good amount of water we gave them and the algae is most likely dying because of the lack of sunlight. The water has turned cloudy. You can see the specks of fish poop floating in the water. I think our EcoTower will remain alive until the very last day. 

Ecotower Sealing Day

          We did this project to make a sample of an ecosystem and to better understand how they work and what makes them survive or die off. My group members are Rachel, Tangie, and Brandon. Rachel brought in fish. Tangie brought in soil, worms, plants, beans, fish, 5 gallon bottle, and crickets. Brandon did not bring in anything, and I brought in a 2 liter bottle. We had to make sure that the carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles were fully operational before sealing the tower. We put worms, crickets, fish, lima beans, algae, and snails into the tower. I did not sneak a peak, i'm waiting until Friday to look at our ecotower but Brandon said he saw it and there was a lot of condensation.

Succession and Abiotic Factors

In this lab we measured Height of plant material

We went outside and measured the temperature of the air, then of the black top. Then we went over to the baseball field and measured the temperature of the ground inside of the batting cages. After that we went to the grassy area outside of the batting cages and measured the temperature of the ground there. The next place we went was over to the woods where the shrubs are directly behind the school. We measured the temperature of the ground there as well. The last place we went was into the woods. We measured the ground temperature there also.

This is when we were at the black top.

 This is when we were inside of the batting cages.

This is when we were at the grassy area outside of the batting cages.

This is when we were at the edge of the woods by the shrubs.

This is when we went into the woods.