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Journey North Tulip Project



 **Ecology ** (from [|Greek] : οἶκος, oikos, "house, household, housekeeping, or living relations" ; -λογία, -logia, "study of") 

**between living things and their physical environment. **
** or ** ====**The study of the interactions  between all living things (animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, protozoa) and the physical environment (soil, rock, wind, temperature, soil, sunlight, carbon, nitrogen, water) ** ====

**Garden Site Selection Rubric**

Our class did a survey of all the gardens on campus. We evaluated the following criteria below: 0- doesn't meet criteria and 3- meets criteria The higher number means the garden should grow well and follow the similar standards as other journey north gardens.

|| 2   ||  1  ||  2  ||  3  ||  3  ||  3  ||  2  || ||  3   ||  1  ||  2  ||  3  ||  3  ||  3  ||  3  ||  Slope DOES NOT face south  ||  3 || 2  ||  2  ||  2  ||  3  ||  2  ||  2  || ||  0  ||  2  ||  2  ||  3  ||  2  ||  2  || ||  1  ||  1  ||  2  ||  3  ||  1  ||  3  || (dig 8’ down with shovel) ||  3  ||  2  ||  2  ||  2  ||  2  ||  1  ||  3  || (water does not form a puddle after rain) || 2  ||  2  ||  0  ||  2  ||  2  ||  2  ||  3  ||
 * Possible planting sites || MS  ||  West  ||  LS  ||  Gym  ||  Finn  ||  US  ||  Journey North  ||
 * Exposure ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||  (quad)  ||
 * Good exposure to sun
 * Not in full shade
 * Temperature ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Air temp matches the average for our town || 2
 * Away from foundation of building (at least 15 ft.) || 0
 * Away from sunny pavement || 1  ||  1  ||  2  ||  1  ||  1  ||  2  ||  2  ||
 * Not in enclosed courtyard || 2  ||  0  ||  1  ||  2  ||  1  ||  2  ||  2  ||
 * Soil ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Workable
 * Well Drained
 * Other Considerations ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Safe from foot traffic and other interference || 2  ||  1  ||  0  ||  0  ||  1  ||  2  ||  1  ||
 * Safe from predators || 2  ||  2  ||  1  ||  0  ||  1  ||  1  ||  1  ||
 * Safe from salt (or other chemical) run-off || 2  ||  2  ||  1  ||  1  ||  1  ||  0  ||  2  ||
 * TOTALS || 24  ||  15  ||  16  ||  20  ||  24  ||  21  ||  26  ||
 * TOTALS || 24  ||  15  ||  16  ||  20  ||  24  ||  21  ||  26  ||

abiotic, biotic, water cycle

Dahmir Ruffin, Andrew Farmer, James Ives

carbon cycle, gym garden, soil

Matt Petersen, Grady Nance, Jackson Spahr

<span style="color: #054377; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">food chain, lower school learning garden, tools in garden

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Robert Magnanaro, Mark Gregory, Harrison Fellheimer

<span style="color: #054377; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">food web, middle school garden, garden observations

Ben Stallworth, Michael Feng, Cameron Hanssens

<span style="color: #054377; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">energy pyramid, west garden, garden predictions

Graham Haabestad, Kevin Cushing, Niklas Golz

<span style="color: #054377; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">bulbs, upper school garden, nitrogen cycle

Luke Egan, Alex Ciardi, Will Merhige