A Walk in the Woods

     Today we walked near the vernal pool on our campus looking for parts of the Tree Life Cycle

Mr. Abrams teaching us at the vernal pools

.  We found evidence of seedlings, saplings, mature trees and decomposing trees.  This is the life cycle of the tree and the trees in the forest.  They are all part of a system called the forest ecosystem.  We also were looking for evidence of life.  We found consumers such as Red Efts, which are carnivores and also frogs.  We also found producers which are plants.

Decomposers are very important in a forest because they break down trees and other plant life.  The decomposers we found were many kinds of mushrooms.  Some were stringy, some looked like a dome, and some were flat.  Some even looked like coral.  We learned that most of the fungis is actually under ground or in a decomposing tree.  The mushroom is kind of like the flower where its spores are released to make more fungis.

    

While we were outside we took notes on our charts and we sketched what we found and colored it in to show the systems of a forest.
      Mr. Dale Abrams was our guest today.  He lead us on our walk and taught us lots about the forest.

Written by Hunter