To help us farther our understanding of abiotic changes we started to play a game. This game was based on secondary succession, which is when "pioneer" species have all ready rooted and grew into bigger things but then a natural disaster cleared the land of them. We started with nothing and our goal was to grow a forest in the newly cleared land. Each player would take turns rolling a die and see if they could roll in sequence 1,2,3,4,5 and finally 6 to win.
If you rolled a 1, then you could put a grass down. If you rolled a 2, then you could put a herb down. If you rolled a 3, then you could put a small tree down. If you rolled a 4, then you could put down a big tree down and destroy 1 of someone's "grass". If you rolled a 5, then you could put down another big tree down and destroy 1 of someone's "herbs". If you rolled a 6 out of sequence, then you destroy the two trees on the field(only if there is 4+). If a 6 is rolled in sequence with the rest of the numbers then you start a "big forest fire" and WIN the game. The first person to roll all the numbers in sequence is the winner.
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| The start of a young forest |
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| The game board and playing pieces. |
This game showed us how in nature ecosystems aren't just all climax communities. It also showed us how in nature all forest start from just rocks. From which lichen grow onto and drop nutrients for the next plant and so forth and so forth. But it also showed how disasters can cripple this succession and make it start over. (ex. wildfire)
This week in APES was full of fun but also full with knowledge. We learned about primary succession , secondary succession, natural selection, and much more! Below will be more links to additional information on this topic.
Sincerely,
Devin Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2Xl6ZqzRI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-LZdIyUQg
http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/unit/pdfs/textbook.pdf (UNIT4:PART9)
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