Answer the following questions

In your own words, define what an ?ecotone? is.
Describe your observations (what each habitat looks like) for each of the 3 habitat types. Use detailed descriptions and highlight differences. Draw the leaves of a plant from each habitat.
Ecological Succession is dependent on ?limiting factors? that can prevent plant communities from reaching climax. This can result in landscapes such as Stevens Creek County Park where we can have a mixture of several habitats in a small area. List the limiting factors we come across at Stevens Creek County Park, and describe its effect.
Everything humans do has an impact on the environment. List 5 impacts you observed during today?s field trip.
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Stevens Creek County Park
Habitats are defined as: the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
Biomes, and Habitats are defined by variations in temperature, water, soil, light (energy), etc.
Each Habitat has distinct life forms living in it that form communities of interdependent life
forms.
Ecological Succession: a fundamental concept in ecology, refers to more-or-less predictable and
orderly changes in the composition or structure of an ecological community.
The trajectory of ecological change can be influenced by site conditions, by the interactions of
the species present, and by more stochastic factors such as availability of colonists or seeds, or
weather conditions at the time of disturbance.
This area has 3 distinct habitats; Riparian, Chaparral, Oak woodland, and several ?Ecotones? that
help support local species in different ways.
Today you will:
1. In your own words, define what an ?ecotone? is.
2. Describe your observations (what each habitat looks like) for each of the 3 habitat types.
Use detailed descriptions and highlight differences. Draw the leaves of a plant from each
habitat.
3. Ecological Succession is dependent on ?limiting factors? that can prevent plant
communities from reaching climax. This can result in landscapes such as Stevens Creek
County Park where we can have a mixture of several habitats in a small area. List the
limiting factors we come across at Stevens Creek County Park, and describe its effect.
4. Everything humans do has an impact on the environment. List 5 impacts you observed
during today?s field trip.
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