1.)    We as a group personally feel that our eco-column was relatively successful at being an ecosystem. There were some reasons why we felt it was not as effective as it could possibly be at being an ecosystem but there are very few of these reasons, and over all we felt it achieved the points which classify it an ecosystem. Some of these points are that both the Abiotic and biotic components were able to interact with each other effectively. We also found that our worms and snails survived surprisingly long and we had breeding of fruit flies in our decomposition zone. It is also classified as an ecosystem because we have developed a nutrient cycle and whatever water or nutrients are given out is put straight back in, this helps keep them within the ecosystem. Also our fruit flies interacted with our ecosystem by eating the decomposing fruit and helping the process. We all feel that it is because of these reasons that we can call our eco-column an ecosystem.

2.)    Building this eco-column has helped us see how the Abiotic and biotic components have had to interact with each other to survive and without interaction the eco-column would not survive optimally. Also an animal in the eco-column cannot contribute to the survival of the eco-column without the animal putting back into the nutrient cycle. Also naturally the animals will automatically put back into the eco-column.

3.)    We all feel that we work very well as a group but were not as efficient with our time as we could have been. We were relatively effective with allocating each member of our group tasks, but we were not always completely fair about the allocation of those tasks. We sometimes found it difficult when we were allocated two tasks and had to share it out amongst our 3 members.

4.)    A huge amount of time an effort was put into the designing of our blog and in finding a very aesthetic layout. Although we has some feed back early on that the green writing for our blog archive was very hard to read against our green background.  For our blog we decided to stick to a greeny type of theme due to it being related to ecology and plants, and we all feel that just this theme alone conveys the subject of this project. Almost every single image in our blog has a caption which accurately describes its context. Each post is written and layed out in the most formal way possible and any spelling errors have been corrected. The writing of the posts was evenly shared out and the checking and posting onto the blog was done by Christopher Mailer due to him being the blog administrator. We feel that due to all of this effort and time our blog should be very aesthetic and a pleasure to read.