Researching Deserts
In deserts you can grow bushes, weeds, grass, trees, cacti.
Animals that can live in the biomes are reptiles, coyotes and other felines, Kangaroos and Pygmy Owl.
Man made processes that effect deserts are that men dig out deserts and use deserts to mine in.
Natural processes that effect the desert biome is the lack of rainfall, the hot climate and the mass amount of drainage.
Threats that deserts have is that they are growing and that they destroy plants and animals.
These are threats because with the amount of global warming, it is causing everything to dry up, which means that the desert is growing, which means other biomes are turning into deserts, which would cause all of the different flora and fauna to die because of the lack of rain and the intense heat.
In deserts you can grow bushes, weeds, grass, trees, cacti.
Animals that can live in the biomes are reptiles, coyotes and other felines, Kangaroos and Pygmy Owl.
Man made processes that effect deserts are that men dig out deserts and use deserts to mine in.
Natural processes that effect the desert biome is the lack of rainfall, the hot climate and the mass amount of drainage.
Threats that deserts have is that they are growing and that they destroy plants and animals.
These are threats because with the amount of global warming, it is causing everything to dry up, which means that the desert is growing, which means other biomes are turning into deserts, which would cause all of the different flora and fauna to die because of the lack of rain and the intense heat.
HYPOTHESIS:
Over 6 weeks, the biome will become really dry and the grass in there will be dead once the water is all evaporated.
MATERIALS:
A Jar
Red Sand
White Sand
Sandstone
Grass Seeds
About a water cap of water.
METHOD:
Create your biome using the materials provided and put them in the jar.
Tip the water into the biome.
Bring the Biome home and record your findings for 6 weeks.
When time is done, bring biome back to school and make a time lapse video of your biome changing with the images taken.
Over 6 weeks, the biome will become really dry and the grass in there will be dead once the water is all evaporated.
MATERIALS:
A Jar
Red Sand
White Sand
Sandstone
Grass Seeds
About a water cap of water.
METHOD:
Create your biome using the materials provided and put them in the jar.
Tip the water into the biome.
Bring the Biome home and record your findings for 6 weeks.
When time is done, bring biome back to school and make a time lapse video of your biome changing with the images taken.
Methods
Week 1 Day 1: I got a jar from Mr. Micallef and I filled it up with 2 types of sand, rocks, bark, and grass seeds. I also put a couple drips of water. My desert is called Kawaiidesu Desertsama. My biomes doesn't look like anything is going to happen.
Week 1 Day 1: I got a jar from Mr. Micallef and I filled it up with 2 types of sand, rocks, bark, and grass seeds. I also put a couple drips of water. My desert is called Kawaiidesu Desertsama. My biomes doesn't look like anything is going to happen.
Week 1 Day 2: There is condensation on the inside of the jar from the water droplets I put in yesterday. Besides that there isn't much more to what I have seen.
Week 1 Day 3: I haven't noticed any differences today, if anything there is less condensation on the inside of the container.
Week 1 Day 4: Nothing different has happened with my biome. I opened it if anything and it already smells terrible if anything. The grass seeds haven't done anything. Nothing has changed.
Week 1 Day 5: There were no changes to my biome seen today.
Week 1 Day 6: There were no changes. Just more condensation.
Week 1 Day 7: From looking at the first image, it seems that my desert has lost moisture.
Week 2 Day 1: Grass has started to sprout out of the sand from the grass seeds in there. Hopefully I can have full grown grass in there in a couple weeks time.
Week 2 Day 2: More grass has started to sprout. Around the bottom of the old grass, they have turned a brown colour.
Week 2 Day 3: The grass in my biome has grown taller. The grass isn't dying yet. It looks really healthy.
Week 2 Day 4: The grass that first sprouted is now touching the top of the container. Even more grass sis sprouting from the sand.
Week 2 Day 5: All of the grass has grown a little bit taller. There isn't as much condensation. Maybe because today was only max. 13 degrees Celsius.
Week 2 Day 6: All of the grass in my biome is touching the top of the jar.
Week 2 Day 7: There have been on further changes to my biome. I can't believe that there is grass growing in my desert biome as well.
Week 3 Day 1: It has been two weeks and I amazed with what has been happening with my biome. Today there were no further changes to my biome.
Week 3 Day 2: There were no further changes seen to my biome so far.
Week 3 Day 3: No changes.
Week 3 Day 4: I just noticed now. All of the grass that was growing is now full grown in my biome. I still don't get why the grass would grow in sand. It just seems unusual.
Week 3 Day 5: Compared to yesterday, there is no major changes to my biome today.
Week 3 Day 6: I just noticed today that at the bottom of the grass growing it is a reddish purple colour. I'm not sure if it's normal or if it is just the type of grass growing.
Week 3 Day 7: It has been another successful week. All of the grass in the jar has fully grown. I'm thinking about trimming them soon but I actually think I might just leave my desert as it is.
Week 4 Day 1: No major changes seen to my biome.
Week 4 Day 2: My grass is really long now to the point where it has needed to bend over.
Week 4 Day 3: It seems that the grass is even more red at the bottom of the grass.
Week 4 Day 4: There were no major changes seen to my biome today.
Week 4 Day 5: There were no major changes seen to my biome.
Week 4 Day 6: I just noticed that the sand looks drier and it looks a little sparkly. This has no effect on the grass just of yet.
Week 4 Day 7: There no major changes seen to my biome today. I am just surprised that my biome hasn't died yet. The grass hasn't seem to have died yet and it looks really healthy. I think because we are in a cold climate, the water stays in the biome.
Week 5 Day 1: There have been no changes to my biome.
Week 5 Day 2: Since yesterday, there have no more changes to my biome that I have observed.
Week 5 Day 3: No changes.
Week 5 Day 4: The grass in my biome looks a bit dryer yet there is still condensation in the jar.
Week 5 Day 5: There were no changes to my biome since yesterday
Week 5 Day 6: There were no major changes seen to my biome.
Week 5 Day 7: No changes
Week 6 Day 1: There are no new changes seen to my biome.
Week 6 Day 2: No changes
Week 6 Day 3: No changes seen.
Week 6 Day 4: There no changes seen today. If anything the grass is really long.
Week 6 Day 5: There are no changes seen to my biome.
Week 6 Day 6: No major changes to my biome.
Week 6 Day 7: The very last day I have to look after my biome! yay! I can't believe what has happened over the last couple of weeks with my biome. At the start it looked like a hopeless jar of sand and in the end there is tall grass living in the biome in the jar. I thought that I would have killed the biome by now.
Discussion:
After looking after the biome for six weeks, it seems that the biome did not die and it stayed healthy throughout the entire six weeks. The grass seeds placed in the send ended up growing into strands of luscious green grass.
In a desert, most plants don't survive, whereas in this biome, it survived. The results may have been different to what has been thought because the climate where it is was living in was mostly around 10˚C instead of scorching hot weather.
If the climate was consistently warm, there would have been a different result of my biome.
After looking after the biome for six weeks, it seems that the biome did not die and it stayed healthy throughout the entire six weeks. The grass seeds placed in the send ended up growing into strands of luscious green grass.
In a desert, most plants don't survive, whereas in this biome, it survived. The results may have been different to what has been thought because the climate where it is was living in was mostly around 10˚C instead of scorching hot weather.
If the climate was consistently warm, there would have been a different result of my biome.
Conclusion:
After taking care of a desert biome for six weeks, the biome grew and stayed healthy, which proves the hypothesis incorrect.
After taking care of a desert biome for six weeks, the biome grew and stayed healthy, which proves the hypothesis incorrect.
References:
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert.htm
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert.htm