Journal entry

For my journal entry I chose to sit outside at on a bench in a park in an area near my house. 

As I observed the ecosystem around me I snapped photos, and here they are!

These trees are angiosperms, they are producers.

This tree is a gymnosperm, it is a producer

These trees are also gymnosperms and producers.

This is a tree stump, and grass. 

This is a patch of moss on the ground.

This is a pine cone beside the bench. Pine cones come form gymnosperms.

If you look far in the background you can see a patch of ferns. Ferns are producers.

This is a robin, robins are part of the animal kingdom and are consumers

This is another pine cone on the ground beside my foot

The little circle in the grass is a Fungi fruiting body called a mushroom.  Mushrooms are decomposers.

This is a close up version of the mushroom. 

This is a picture of a spider. Spiders are part of the animal kingdom, and are arthropods.  They are consumers.

Kingdom Plantae

What is a plant?

A plant is a photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organism part of the kingdom Plantae. Plants typically have walls containing cellulose, lack of mobility and have  alternation of generations in their life cycles. The kingdom Plante is made up of many magnificent living organisms. Fungi, bacteria, and blue-green algae are often thought to be part of this kingdom but are actually parts of the other five kingdoms.

Phylum Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants),   Phylum Filicinophyta  (Ferns), Phylum Bryophyta (Mosses)