Week 5

Mr. Greene sorry about the confusing titles, as you can see I have remedied that.

As news goes, we have recently had to add more water to the entire ecocolumn. Although water is obviously being slowly cycled in the column (as can be seen in the condensation of the terrestrial chamber) there still is not enough water for the column to survive on its own. We came to this realization when we noticed that several leaves in our plant were slowly drying out. This, coupled with the fact that the roots are having to dig deeper in the hopes of finding water, lead us to water our column. This in itself must be closely monitored in case that we over do it and flood our aquatic chamber. In other news, we have introduced more crickets into our terrestrial chamber as the ones we had previously introduced are no longer in existence as far as we can see. This being the case it is obvious that the anole is the top consumer of the ecocolumn.

There is no change in the state of the decomposition chamber, leaving the idea that the bacteria that helps decompose the material is either dead or cannot decompose tha material that is in there.

Aquatic chamber has no visible changes.