Team members
Names / Roles:
- Kabeta Motoki (Leader)
- Paing Phyo Tha (Wiki Writer)
- Fu Guosheng (Researcher)
- Glenn Tham (Researcher)
Overview
In this section, include a brief description of the allocated ecosystem. You should include the following information:
- Location of the ecosystem: Earth
Sand dunes in the Rub' al Khalihttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Rub_al_Khali_002.JPG/320px-Rub_al_Khali_002.JPG
Desert is a landscape which does not support growth of most plants as there is low amount of precipitation. Most desert has an average annual precipitation of 400mm or lower. There are deserts that are cold and hot. Gobi Desert is one of the cold desert and has an extreme temperatures.
Snowfall in Gobi Desert http://www.bluepeak.net/mongolia/assets/photos/gobi-snow.jpg
Not all deserts have sandy dunes. Some are barren land covered with bare rocks.
Barren land covered up with some bare rocks in Gobi Desert http://www.bluepeak.net/mongolia/assets/photos/sevrey-gobi.jpg
There are 2 types. Biotic and abiotic. Abiotic are non living things which are light, water, air, sand and temperatures. Biotic are living things which are scorpion, coyotes, snakes, lizards, cacti and so on.
Physical Factors
Search the Internet for information on the following physical factors in the allocated ecosystem.
- Light (availability of sunlight in the ecosystem): Receive more than 12 hours of light per day.
- Temperature (temperature of the ecosystem): In summer +40°C or higher in daytime. At nighttime it is 0°C or lower in the winter.
- Water (water quality in the ecosystem): Less water as it only has an approximately 400mm of rain falls annually. Varies on desert location. Some has more rain falls than others.
- Air (quality of air in the ecosystem): Air is hot in hot desert. Cold in cold desert. Sandy in sandy desert.
- pH (acidic or alkaline environment in the ecosystem): Alkaline soil.
Classification of Living Organisms
Classify at least eightof the living organisms found in the allocated ecosystem into the categories below:
Producers
Cactus
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Barrel_cactus_with_a_view.JPG/360px-Barrel_cactus_with_a_view.JPG
It produces food for consumers.
Primary Consumers
Mule Deer
http://digital-desert.com/wildlife/400-1042.jpg
It feeds on producers.
Quail
http://digital-desert.com/wildlife/320-gambels-quail-2580.jpg
It feeds on producers.
Rat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Rattus_norvegicus_1.jpg
It feeds on producers.
Blister Bee
http://digital-desert.com/wildlife/320-blister-beetle-1046.jpg
It feeds on producers.
Secondary Consumers
Mountain lion
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/006/cache/mountain-lion_637_600x450.jpg
It feeds on Mule Deer.
Coyote
http://digital-desert.com/wildlife/553f.jpg
It feeds on quail.
Snake
http://digital-desert.com/wildlife/snakes/320-snake-gopher-snake-5176.jpg
It feeds on rat.
Tertiary Consumers
Hawk
http://digital-desert.com/wildlife/420-red-tailed-hawk-1198.jpg
It feeds on snake.
Decomposers
For each of the living organism, find a picture and write a short description on the organism. You may wish to include feeding habits, region in the ecosystem where it is normally found etc.
Food Web
Interrelationship in Ecosystem
Give at least one example for each of the following relationships in the ecosystem:
- Predator-prey relationship
- Eagle eats snake.
- Parasitism
- Consumers getting their water from leaves.
- Mutualism
- Plants giving food to their consumers. Consumers help plants by dispersing their seeds.
Useful Links
Plagiarism is a strongly discouraged
Comments (1)
Mr Tan Wei Zhi said
at 11:40 pm on Mar 18, 2012
Some areas of improvements:
1. Provides some examples for the points mentioned in physical factors.
2. More details on what producers the primary consumers feed on and more descriptions about the consumers too.
3. You miss out on the decomposers.
4. More explanations on the interrelationships.
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