TSOTS Blog Post #4

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. some abiotic factors are rain, sunlight, and temperature. Plants needs these things to grow. they use sunlight for food. Some biotic factors are other plants and other organisms.
2. How do you know your plants are engaged in competition? For what are your plants competing, and who is the competition? I know the plants are engaged in competition becuase as you can see some are bigger than others so that shows that plants are fighting with other plants just for food. the other plants that my plant is engaged in are mostly the plants next to it fighting for food and this is all an example of parasitism. 
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? yes it is clear cut who is the winners and losers. it is determined by which plant has grown the largest and which ones have not grown so much. it can make it complicated sometimes to tell winners and losers if the community has unlimited resources or the carrying capacity is high.
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. parasitism because the plants are living together and some are gaining more than others like food wise, so this shows an example of parasitism because parasitism is when two organism are living together and one gains and one is harmed.
5. What evidence is there in the garden that succession (or something like it) is occurring in the garden ecosystem? Does it seem more like primary or secondary succession? there is something like succession because it is a new and upcoming area with plants that started with only soil so it seems more like secondary succession.