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The Eco-plot for our D-block science class is a small patch of land or dirt we observe to find out what organisms and different types of plants live there. We made science logs to record our data every time we went out to observe it and here is our chart   :

|| 11/3/09   ||  11/17/09   ||  12/1/09   ||  12/4/09   ||  1/12/10   ||  2/2/10   ||  3/2/10   ||  3/16/10   ||  3/25/10   ||  4/4/10   ||  4/20/10   ||  4/28/10   ||  5/15/10   || ||  29.57   ||  29.9   ||  normal || 29.65   ||  29.82   ||  29.95   ||  29.6   ||  29.25   ||  29.5   ||  30.5   ||  29.15   ||  28.95   ||  normal || || 62 F   ||  22 C   ||  normal || normal || 28 F   ||  31 F   ||  3 C   ||  22 C   ||  10 C   ||  46 F   ||  60 F   ||  55 F   ||  normal || || 27%   ||  18%   ||  normal || 85%   ||  3%   ||  100%   ||  100%   ||  1%   ||  99.90%   ||  100%   ||  15%   ||  62%   ||  normal || || big and fluffy || normal || normal || flat, thin, gray || cumulous || thick&gray || massive, gray || fluffy,stretched || gray,thick || white, fluffy || small, fluffy || white and fluffy || normal || || 7.5   ||  1.2   ||  normal || 2.8   ||  1.7   ||  1.8   ||  3.5   ||  3.2   ||  3   ||  0.8   ||  1.6   ||  1   ||  normal || || NE SE   ||  S   ||  normal || N   ||  NE   ||  NE   ||  SW   ||  W   ||  NE   ||  S   ||  SW   ||  SE   ||  normal || || 52%   ||  23%   ||  normal || normal || normal || normal || normal || normal || normal || 44%   ||  33%   ||  40%   ||  normal ||
 * Air Pressure
 * Temperature
 * Cloud %
 * Cloud Type
 * wind speed
 * wind direction
 * humidity

Tools  we   used   to   collect   data   : thermometer  -   to get temperature kestrel -   to find wind speed bubbles -   to find wind direction compass -   to find our direction barometer -  to find air pressure

Types  of   plants   we   found   :

English ivy (hedera helix) what we've noticed about the english ivy is that it is an invasive species that is hardy enough to stay green all winter. Miscellaneous yellow flowers (unknown) From what we know about it is that it flowers in the spring and dies in the winter. Garlic mustard (    Alliaria petiolata) We know that garlic mustard has three stages of life. The first one is to grow tiny little stalks with crescent like shaped leaves,2nd stage is it dies in the winter and then recovers in spring, the 3rd is in the summer it starts to grow stalks and flower. Three leaf clovers (Trifolium) Three leaf clovers are extremely invasive and grow in large patches, they do die in the winter and grow in warmer weather. Wine berry (  Rubus phoenicolasius) The wine berry looks almost exactly like a raspberry but is more wild. It grows in large vine like things with thorns. The way you can tell the wine berry an the raspberry apart is that the wine berries leaves have a silver undertone to the bottom. And some Maple tree's (acer rubrum  )


 * From the beginning of the time we started the Eco-plot, it has changed immensely. New seasons have come and gone and all the plants and animals have been effected by it. In the spring We have noticed that new things are thriving and growing taller. When it was winter everything was dormant and quite while all the plants were dead and you could distinctly see all the foot prints left behind in the fresh snow. During fall all the leaves have changed colours and plants were falling off there stems and stalks ready for winter only to start growing again in spring.
 * The animals we've seen have been limited. We've seen scat perhaps from a ground hog, a domestic cat or a raccoon. We've seen ground hog burrows and tracks from Raccoons and Deer. Some of the birds we've seen were robins, cardinals and one distinct blue jay, But the robin is the most common.

Final analysis:

The eco-plot we have studied has been healthy, and had no signs of dying. The one piece of eco plot we had was thriving in spring and dormant in the winter. New flowers grew and vines wrapped around the trees with many new insects and spottings of animals. Our eco-plot is part of a larger biome in the ecosystem. The climate of our ecosystem has changed through the seasons from the the beginning of the year with temperature and how it effects the environment. IN our ecosystem the nutrients live in soil and everything thing around us, it is a contributing factor to the biome and all animals around it. Our ecosystems have lots of invasive species like the english ivy and three leaf clovers, they take over surrounding plants and kill them for space. exoskeletons are a hard covering on the outside of the body, we have found a couple of insect exoskeletons in our eco plot. We have seen many signs indicating that vertebrae have been going there including raccoons deer rabbits and lots of squirrels. In the biome are lots of worms, they are invertebrates and segmented worms. The light doesn't reach out eco-plot directly since it is the very bottom layer of the canopy, it takes longer for energy to effect plants to grow very big. there are a lot of different biodiversity including plants and some animals, there are at least 10 different species of plants growing. Some plants that that were in the eco plot was the english ivy and garlic mustard which was invasive to the eco plot.