What I Learned On The Nature Walk

On the nature walk, our class visited a temperate, deciduous forest. We could tell that the ecosystem was deciduous because, since we are approaching autumn, we saw the leaves beginning to change color. This is a sign, during the fall season that the leaves are about to drop from the tress. The only exceptions in the forest were the conifer trees. One example of this is white pine, whose needles do not all drop depending on the season. We could also understand that the forest was temperate because when the temperature rises or drops, it is not extreme. The weather in this region of New York is very moderate. Some abiotic factors that my group noticed, which are important to the compositions and activity of the ecosystem was sunlight, precipitation, change in seasons, and elevation. Sunlight was particularly important because the growth in the lower level of the forest depends on how much sunlight is let through the trees above. In this particular forest that we visited, I noticed that there was not a lot of lower level growth because the taller trees were very close together. Over all, it was a very enjoyable, informative nature walk.