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= ECO System Suburbia; = = Woodville High School Garden =
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=**By Troy Stanway, Sean Dixon, ** = =**Alexander Do & Alex Dankiewicz ** = ||> || include all animals in a report because; some animals are seasonal, some are nocturnal and some are just hidden or are hard to find. The garden serves many purposes; the students of Woodville high use it as a learning tool with many different subjects, Food is grown and the most important purpose is a place for lots of animals to live in. If the garden were to be demolished, it would be a catastrophic loss; animals would have no home or food source and then many animals would die. ||
 * The Woodville High School garden is a rich and vibrant ecosystem. There are lots of habitats and millions of animals. It would be nearly impossible to


 * __**Garden Perimeter View: **__ ||
 * [[image:out_2.jpg width="279" height="209" caption="Garden North Entrance"]] || [[image:01042011237.jpg height="209" caption="Garden South Entrance"]] || [[image:out.jpg width="279" height="209" caption="Garden South West Corner"]] ||

The pond is home to many different animals. Under the water and around the banks of the pond grow plants and that is where animals live. The main animals that live in the Pond are tadpoles and frogs as well as other microscopic organisms and other life forms like algae. The Eastern Banjo Frog and Eastern Banjo Tadpoles are the main animals that live in the pond. ||
 * __**Garden Street View & Satellite View: **__ ||
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 * __Habitat__** **__Analysis:__**
 * __**Pond **__
 * [[image:Banjo_Frog_Tadpole_by_greenzaku.jpg width="273" height="205" caption="Eastern Banjo Tadpole"]] || [[image:Pond.jpg width="252" height="206" caption="Pond Diagram"]] || [[image:Eastern-Banjo-Frog-1-1024x768.jpg width="277" height="207" caption="Eastern Banjo Frog"]] ||

Webs are very unique places to live or die. Spiders spin webs using their abdomen, which produces silk webs. They spin webs from one object to another and then create a pattern web between both objects. The silk is very sticky to another organism and almost certainly traps them on the web; this is how to spider catches it prey. The flies and insect fly into or get stuck on the web, then the spider moves quickly across the web and spins the prey up in silk and leaves them on the web to die. Later the spider comes back and eats the prey or it leaves it for later. Spiders are the only animal that lives in a web, others may visit the web but soon die. Spiders found in the garden are primarily Golden silk orb-weaver spiders. || media type="custom" key="8942804" || ||
 * **__Web__**
 * [[image:web2.jpg height="223" caption="Web Diagram"]] ||= media type="youtube" key="LGigBmHn7E0?rel=0" height="232" width="322"


 * **__Chicken Coop__**
 * <span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The chicken coop is where the chickens live. The chicken coop has a enclosed area with a door for the chickens to sleep and lay eggs in. The **
 * <span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">second area is an open air compound surrounded by mesh chicken wire. This area is where the chickens get fed and spend most of there time. **
 * <span style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The chicken coop can get quite muddy when it rains and then the chickens go into the enclosed area. ** ||
 * = [[image:04042011256.jpg caption="Garden Chicken Coop"]] || [[image:coop.jpg height="222" caption="Chicken Coop Diagram"]] || [[image:04032011151.jpg height="233" caption="Chickens in the Coop"]] ||

<span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Garden beds are home to millions of animals; some live there and some come and go as they please. The plants are grown in the garden beds, <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">some animals live in the plants and some live in the soil in the garden beds. Some of the common animals living in the garden beds include; <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ants, Moths, Butterflies, Bees, Spiders, Millipede, Snails, Slugs, Lizards, Centipedes and Worms. The Garden beds mostly consist of soil, <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">plants and decaying plant and animal matter. ||
 * <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">__**Garden Bed**__
 * [[image:04032011176.jpg width="289" height="215" caption="Strawberry Garden Bed"]] || [[image:bed.jpg width="257" height="215" caption="Garden Bed Diagram"]] || [[image:08032011222.jpg width="289" height="215" caption="White Ants in Garden Bed"]] ||

<span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There are several trees in the garden including; Banana Tree. Trees are a safe place to live and are very robust against wind and rain. <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Trees can fall over, but it is very unlikely. There is also a risk of a lighting strike, but again it is not common. Trees are a high, green <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">and safe place to live for any animal. Common animals you will find living in the trees in the garden are; Spiders, Butterflies, Parrots and other birds. ||
 * <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**__Trees__**
 * [[image:04032011173.jpg width="287" height="242" caption="Banana Tree"]] || [[image:tree_sized.jpg width="233" height="242" caption="Tree Diagram"]] || [[image:04032011127_Sean.jpg caption="Spider's Web in a Tree"]] ||

<span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Not many animals accually live on the ground or in grass. Most of them accually only pass though these areas or go there searching for food. Ants, <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Beetles, Pray Mantis, Grasshoppers, Crickets and other small insects and bugs are the only real animals the live or search for food in grass and on <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">the general term 'Ground'. Larger animals like Dogs, Cats, Horses and Cows live and play on grass; but these animals do not live in the garden. <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Worms live under the grass and in the ground as well. Really the grass is a communial place where animals go searching for food, the same can be <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">for the ground. ||
 * <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**__Ground and Grass__**
 * [[image:04032011125.jpg caption="Cricket on Concrete"]] || [[image:ground_grass.jpg caption="Grass and Ground Diagram"]] || [[image:04032011155.jpg caption="Ants on Paving"]] ||

<span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There are millions of organisms living in a compost heap. Worms, Bettles, Flies, Ants and lots of other bugs live in a compost heap; there even may be rats <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">or mice visiting the heap for food. So many animals live in a compost heap and collect food from it, it's actually impossible to document what animals do, <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">because there are so many and that sometimes they hide or go home. Compost heaps are primarily for making compost, which is a very rich and fertile <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">fertilizer. Worms break down garden waste and kitchen scraps, which are primarily vegetables or other organic material with the help from other animals to <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">create compost. Compost heaps are very busy and crowded places with millions of organisms working together. ||
 * <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**__Compost Heap__**
 * < [[image:04042011257.jpg width="351" height="185" caption="Compost Station at Rear of Garden"]] || [[image:compost.jpg width="152" height="185" caption="Compost Heap Diagram"]] ||= [[image:04042011262.jpg width="351" height="185" caption="Compost Station and Water Tanks at Rear of Garden"]] ||

<span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Underground is another place where millions of orgainsims live. Primarily Ants and Worms are the only animals that live undergound in the garden; but <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">there are lots more organisms that live underground all over the world. Ants live in colonies underneath anthills and worms live anywhere in damp, wet soil. <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Beetles and other small bugs also live underground, as they say is a whole new, unexplored world under there! ||
 * <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**__Undergound__**
 * = [[image:04042011250.jpg width="279" height="209" caption="Ant Colony at Base of Strawberry Garden Bed"]] || [[image:under.jpg width="322" height="209" caption="Underground / Ant Colony Diagram"]] ||= [[image:04042011242.jpg width="279" height="209" caption="Ant Colony in the Ground"]] ||

<span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hives are where wasps and bees live. Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers and other plants and then take it back to the hive, where they make honey <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">or use it too feed each other. Honey is then harvested by humans and then bottled and sold in shops. There is not a hive in the garden that we know of; <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">but nearby there is, because of the amount of bees in the garden. ||
 * <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**__Hive__**
 * [[image:beehive.jpg width="143" height="209" caption="Beehive in Tree"]] || [[image:04032011121_Sean.jpg width="279" height="209" caption="Bees suckling Lavender"]] || [[image:hive.jpg width="180" height="209" caption="Hive Diagram"]] || [[image:04032011120_Sean.jpg width="279" height="209" caption="Bees suckling Lavender"]] ||

<span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Another habitat that has not many residents, Flowers are usally are soruce of food for most animals. Bees and wasps especially use flowers for <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">harvesting pollen and nectar to in turn make honey. Parrots, Honeyeaters and other birds collect pollen, nectar and seeds from flowers for food as well. <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sunflowers are especially popular for seed collecting. Some flowers however die, which leave some animals with no food, but soon they find more flowers, a <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">different food source or they flowers eventually regrow. ||
 * <span style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**__Flowers__**
 * [[image:04032011109.jpg caption="Sunflower"]] || [[image:flower.jpg caption="Flower Diagram"]] || [[image:04032011170.jpg caption="Pink Flowers"]] ||

We have anayled the animals in the garden and grouped them in to poducers and consumers. Most of the animals in the garden are listed below, but there could be more that are not here, it is impossible to list all of the animals. We have included a food web and some diagrams of some animals.
 * __Animals in the Garden:__**

__**Food Webs:**__
 * Table of Animal Classification:**
 * ~ Organism / Plant ||~ Producer ||~ Primary Consumer ||~ Secondary Consumer ||~ Tertiary Consumer ||
 * = Chicken ||= Yes ||= Yes ||= Yes ||=  ||
 * = White Moth ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Butterfly ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Ant ||=  ||= Yes ||= Yes ||= Yes ||
 * = White Ants ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Bumble Bee ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Honey Bee ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Spider ||=  ||=   ||= Yes ||=   ||
 * = Millipeed ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Frog ||=  ||= Yes ||= Yes ||=   ||
 * = Tadpoles ||=  ||= Yes ||= Yes ||=   ||
 * = Lizard ||=  ||= Yes ||= Yes ||=   ||
 * = Snail ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Slug ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Bettle ||=  ||= Yes ||= Yes ||=   ||
 * = Parrot ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Centipede ||=  ||=   ||= Yes ||= Yes ||
 * = Fly ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Cricket ||=  ||= Yes ||= Yes ||=   ||
 * = Moth ||=  ||= Yes ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Worm ||= Yes ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||
 * = Vegetables ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Fruit ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Tree ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Nuts ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Grains ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Herbs ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Flowers ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Compost ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Wood ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Other Plants ||= Yes ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * Picture Examples:**
 * [[image:moth.jpg width="230" height="176" caption="Moth on a tub"]] || [[image:snail.jpg width="230" height="176" caption="Dead Snail getting eaten by Ants"]] || [[image:pumpkin.jpg width="230" height="176" caption="Pumpkin in Garden Bed"]] ||


 * || [[image:green.jpg width="230" height="176" caption="Green Plants"]] || [[image:egg.jpg width="230" height="176" caption="Eggs laid by Chickens"]] || [[image:moth_2.jpg width="230" height="176" caption="White Moth on weeds"]] ||
 * Completed Food Web:**
 * Animal Diagrams:**

Troy Stanway Sean Dixon Alexander Do Alex Dankiewicz
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