Sunday, November 30, 2008

CONSUMERS, PRODUSERS, AND DECOMPASERS

Three interesting facts:
1.) Consumers eat other consumers and producers and can't make their own food
2.) Producers make their own food


3.) Decomposes break down other organisms an recycle them back into the earth

Information i learned from another source:

1.) Producers or autotroph produce organic compounds from inorganic compounds. the sunlight, water, minerals,and carbon dioxides lead the producer to make a type of sugar called glucouse, which is the food and/or energy.

2.) Decomposes help make the soil healthy by putting the nutrients and cemicals in it. They are important because they start the the food chain all over again.
My opinion:
I think that leaning more about something is very interesting. For example, learning how producers make their food is very interrestin yet important. I learneed that even things that don't seem important, like woms, realy are. Everything on this earth is important even if it doesn't seem like it. i Also learned that decomposers are like recicling machiens. They put all the nutreances bak into the earth so the food chain can start all over again, and the produsers can grow.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Symbiosis Is Everywhere


Three Interesting Facts:



  1. there are five types of symbiosis mutualism, commensalism, parasitism,competition , and neutralism




  2. there are all different kinds of names to categorize symbiosis (example: Nutritional Symbiosis, Shelter Symbiosis, Transport Symbiosis, etc.)


  3. competition means neither species benefits



In class we are learning about ecology, and symbiosis. My opinion is that ecology is important to learn about. Symbiosis is a close relationship between two organism in which one organism lives near, on, or even inside another organism and in witch at least one organism benefits. I already know that there are three types of symbiosis; mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. What I didn't know was that there are two more types of symbiosis, competition , and neutralism. Neutralism means that both species are unaffected. I also didn't know that there are all different kinds of names to categorize symbiosis. To learn more about this you can visit this website:


http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent591k/symbiosis.html