Weekly blog (1/11/18) Photosynthesis

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Summary

     Photosynthesis is the process of taking Carbon Dioxide, Water, and sunlight, and creating food for the plant. There are a lot of cycles like this in the environment. There is the Water cycle, Carbon cycle, Nitrogen cycle, Sulfur cycle, and Phosphorus cycle. The cycles each have a time when they are biotic and a time when they are abiotic. Biotic means alive, and abiotic means not alive.

S&EP

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     I used models to explain and predict behaviors of systems, or test a balance of animals as I question why you need foxes to keep rabbits alive if the foxes kill the rabbits? I was confused at first because how would foxes help the rabbits by killing them. As I learned more I found out that without foxes, the rabbits would overpopulate. That would make it so that food like grass was more scarce because it would eat all of the food supply. But there's foxes eating the rabbits, the rabbits will not overpopulate and eat all of the grass

     XCC

     The idea that if there are not enough foxes, the rabbits would overpopulate is an example of Cause and Effect. This is because the rabbits (the primary consumers) eat grass and if there are too many of them they will run out of grass and start dying. But if there are foxes(the secondary consumers), then they would eat the rabbits before they overpopulated then everything is happy (except the rabbits that get killed). But if there are too many foxes, they would kill off the rabbits and then they have no food. So this is why there should be a good balance of producers, consumers, secondary consumers etc.