How does sunlight water soil a mustard plant an earthworm and a cricket work together in an ecosystem?

Question

Science- ecosystem assessment

Answer 1

OK....you know that sunlight, water, and soil are the basic needs of a plant (in your case Mustard Plant). Once the Mustard plant has grown with the help of sunlight, water, and soil, the cricket will come along into this mini-system. The cricket eats some of the Mustard plant. The cricket dies later on, the worm, a decomposer, breaks down the nutrients and releases them back to the soil. Which starts the cycle all over again! From the soil, to sun, to water (not necessarily in that order), to the Mustard plant, to the cricket, to the decomposser (worm).

Answer 2

I didn't realize that sunlight water could soil a mustard plant. Usually water is used to clean things, not soil them. Maybe sunlight water has different characteristics though.

Answer 3

OK, Reginald, Lets keep this as simple and short as possible. Soil is formed over thousands of years from the minerals from breaking down rocks, but without plants it would have no organic matter at all. Let's assume the sun and rain (water) have always been with us. We bring in the plant and it puts roots down into the soil, helping out the soil structure, and drawing water and ,minerals up to the plant. Now the real miracle starts when the sun shines on the green plant. The chloroplasts in the plant convert the energy from the sun together with CO2 from the air and water from the soil into sugar, the first organic matter, by the process of photosynthesis.  At the same time giving off life giving O2. The plant combines this sugar into more complex carbohydrates as the plant grows. The plant grows flowers and makes seed, which will fall to the ground and eventually make more plants. This is the plants purpose, to reproduce, then it will start to die. The cricket will feed off the plant, its seeds, and dieing plant parts. It also burros into the soil helping aerate the soil as it lays eggs to make more crickets. The cricket, like the plant, will die after it reproduces, forming more organic matter for the soil. The earthworm is  very important actor in this little play of life. The earthworm feeds on the organic matter formed from the dead plant parts, while adding humus (broken down organic matter). All the while it aerates the soil giving it soil structure and the ability to hold more water. The earthworm also reproduces many offspring and eventually will die adding its own body to the organic matter to the soil while its many young earthworms take up where he left off. The seeds from the plant will sprout and grow many more new plants that will have a better soil to grow in because of the cricket and earth worm. Then the sun and green  plant will start the miracle of photosynthesis again and the cycle will start over, bigger and better.

OK, that wasn't so short, but it is a very important play.

Answer 4

do your own homework?

Answer 5

It is a basic minisystem. Plant grows in the soil (for food) with water and the light for photosynthesis. Plant grows and as it does the plant will lose some leaf and root, some parts that are lost to the plant threw wear an tear and environmental conflicts. The cricket lives off of the decaying and dead plant material, breaking it up from large parts to smaller parts that begin to be incorporated into the soil. The earth worm lives on the leavings from the cricket, the rot of the leaf and molds created. This, with the "parent material" of the soil, the sands and weather pulverized minerals, worm castings (high in nitrogen) are left and the soil is recycled from the plant parts threw the system. The plant will take the nutrients from worm castings and minerals in the soil and incorporate them into the plant with photosynthesis and start a new round in the cycle.

Answer 6

If we have herbicide and insecticide, we don't have the mustard weeds nor the cricket, so we just have the blazing sun and eroding rain beating down on soil that is cracked and washed away.