5-6+Forest+(Highland)



**By: Nicole Te, Heaven, James, Meico and Frank**

 In our **__ecosystem__** we saw lot's of **__biotic__** factors like tree's, that had different leaves, small ones that were green,and big leaves that could be the size of a couple fingers. There was only 1 or 2 trees in our area that was roped in, but around that there were a lot of trees.There was grass that was thin and some were in bunches,and some where strains.There was a lot of dirt, and mud, some of it was dry and other parts were wet. There were also **__abiotic__** factors like dead leaves, and sticks. There were spiders and gnats and other insects, too. There was also a sign that a deer had been there, there was deer hooves on the top of the pile of mud. We also saw that basically all the leaves were green, they were pretty much the same, but they were different sizes. The forest was not a **__monoculture__** environment since there are trees, grass, weeds and more.



Forest Provides us air Brazil, Congo, Peru, Indonesia, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Suriname Home to many species of wild life A place we can’t life without, yet we are killing everyday manufacturers are cutting down trees and destroying habitats





= In the Forest there was many different types of things. We saw green leaves, big trees, and sticks. We heard birds chirping, leaves blowing with the wind, and twigs snapping after stepping on them. There was not very much **__biodiversity__ since there was not very many animals in the first place, there was only some insects, but barely any.** It was not very cold out there. Even though there wasn’t as much sunlight, it still was warm. There wasn’t as much sunlight because there were trees covering the ground. There were some dead parts of our area, I think because of the amount of sunlight. Since there was not very much sunlight, different plants died since they didn’t get as much energy as they needed. Our soil was very compact, and crumbly. I think that it could be crumbly because there wasn’t enough sunlight, so it was pretty crumbly and was soft. Our soil was also wet; it could be because of human interaction. People could have done something to it, maybe by pouring water, or having wet shoes. I think that we should have seen more animals because it was a great hiding spot, since plants and trees pretty much covered our area, and animals could use it to hide. We only saw spiders and flying insects. I think that the plants could affect the amount of insects we saw, because insects that are herbivores would probably be in our area because we had so many plants and leaves. I think that the sunlight affected every part of our area, in different ways; like indirect sunlight caused it to be colder then it would be in other places near our area. In the forest there was **__succession__**, it could be that people came into the woods and had wet shoes or something wet, and they may have made the area too wet, and plants could die. =





== This picture shows what we think is deer hooves. We found them is the middle of our site on a pile of mud. The hooves were soft, the mud was very moist. They were deep into the mud, and they were wide but not as long as a usual deers hooves would be. We think that it could have been a baby deer because the size of the hooves seemed a little small. The hooves were sticking up, they weren’t flat. We think that the deer could have come for food, like leaves or plants. We didn't know what the animal was, we thought that it could have been a rabbit, or bear, but we figured out it was deer hooves from the size and shape. The hooves were surrounded by a lot of leaves so the animal was probably eating the leaves. The animal could of also been looking for his prey or hiding from a hunter. ==