Seed Update #4

Our plants need many abiotic and biotic factors to survive (ex. water, sunlight, bugs, leaves). The abiotic factors, like water and sunlight, are non-living objects that do not have carbon. However, biotic factors, like bugs and leaves, are living things and have carbon.

Our plants often compete for water and sunlight, causing them to try and grow on top of each other. The bean plants are also competing for nutrients in the soil with bugs. Our bean plants' roots spread out and try to take as much nutrients as they can from the bugs.

The plants that managed to get the most water and sunlight out of the other plants would be 'winners' because they bested the other plants. The 'losers' would be the plants that didn't get many nutrients because the 'winners' got them.

 Our plants have a mutualistic relationship with bees. The bees take pollen from our plants' flowers and pollinates other plants, allowing more to grow, while the bees get to make nectar from the plants' pollen. The relationship is beneficial to both our plants and the bees.

The bean plants are part of an ecological succession that is occurring in their garden ecosystem. Before any of the plants were planted, a good portion of the garden was empty and almost visibly devoid of life. As time passed by, the garden went through more changes and began to burst with life. More examples of succession would be the weeds growing near our plants or the many insects taking shelter (and possibly food) in our plants.