Site: Behind my house in a wooded area
Date: 5-23-08
Time of day: 5:00 pm
Temperature: 55 degrees
Weather Conditions: Partly Cloudy
Wind Conditions: Calm
Soil Conditions: Dryer
Notes: The area is now drying out from the two days of rain that it had experienced before. Most of the birds stayed under cover during the rain and snow and now they are coming out looking for food. The earth worms have come out and for some unknown reason like to lay on the road. The herd of deer are back again feeding on the fresh grass. The biodiversity of the area is increasing every day as the animals come out of hibernation. An eagle flew over our house with a fish in its talons. This is a good example of the food chain. A bug gets eaten by the fish, then the fish gets eaten by the eagle. The eagle is near the top of the food chain so it has few predators besides humans.
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Great observations on the food chain and well as competition. To take your written observations to the next level be sure to incorporate more of the ecology vocab. For example, when you talked about the food chain point out which is the producer/consumer etc. or speak of the important role earthworms play in the environment. In addition, you could be even more specific while discussing competition, saying whether it was intraspecific or interspecific competition.
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