Ecosystem

 Yesterday we made an ecosystem in science. 

My ecosystem consisted of a giraffe, a tree, fungi under the tree, and bacteria in the dirt.

Our ecosystem: 

Research the animal...

Giraffe:

Movement: It can move around and it moves its neck up to reach its food. It has four legs with which it uses to walk or run with.

Reproduction: It uses sexual reproduction meaning the giraffe would need to find a mate of the opposite gender to reproduce with.

Sensitivity: It feels pain and if an animal it would either try to fight back with its neck or run away.

Growth: It gets bigger and a baby giraffe isn't the same size as a fully grown giraffe.

Respiration: I eat food leaves and turns them into energy when it digests its food.

Excretion: It gets rid of its waste by doing both poos and urinating.

Nutrition: The giraffe eats plants mainly tree leaves and branches meaning that it is a herbivore. The giraffe also eats heaps of food eating up to 75 pounds. It doesn't drink as often though like once every few days.

Adaptations: 

Giraffes can go weeks without water since they might not see it that often. 

They have long necks allowing them to get food. 

They had a hard tongue so they can rip the plants off the tree without it cutting their tongue.

Predation/prey relationship:

Poacher and giraffe: Poachers target a variety of animals in the African Savana. One of the poached animals is the giraffe. Giraffes often would try and run away but since the poachers have guns they shoot them and take their heads home or take parts and sell them. This is having a bad impact on the animals. Here is a possible outcome because of poachers:

As you can in the image the giraffe is unfortunately dead.

Giraffe and tree: The giraffe eats plants in the ecosystem including trees. The tree would be the prey. This could be bad for the planet because the giraffes would eat so much meaning there is less of the plant in the ecosystem. But since the plant can adapt it might adapt to form protection against the giraffe.