In Forests, swamps, wetland margins (edges of wetlands)
Growth form:

 the plant is a tree 

Leaf form
-the leaves are needle-like
-the leaves are scale-like

Classification:
- domain eukaryote
- Phylum pinophyta
- Genus Abies
- Kingdom Plantae, the Plants Division Coniferophyta, the Conifers Class Pinopsida Order Pinales Family Pinaceae, the Pines, Spruce, and Firs Genus Abies, the true firs, about 40 species in the Northern Hemisphere, nine, including balsamea, native to the US
adaptations:
-Fir trees, like most conifers, have adventitious roots, thick barks, and rapid life cycles to help them survive in extreme conditions and withstand forest fires. Fir trees are equipped with special root structures, called adventitious roots, which grow directly from their trunks to help keep them anchored on steep mountain slopes and resist strong pressure from blowing winds.
Reproduction:
Balsam fir is monoecious. In spring, 1 year before pollination, male (staminate) and female (ovulate or pistillate) strobili differentiate from flower buds. The strobili are microscopically recognizable at this time. Male strobili usually are distinguishable before the female strobili because they initially develop more rapidly. Flower buds usually open in late May or early June before vegetative buds but have been reported as flowering as early as late April.
Nutrients:
Balsam fir has been reported as growing on soils of a wide range of acidity.
Balsam fir grows on a wide range of inorganic and organic soils originating from glaciation and generally falling within the acid Spodosol, Inceptisol, and Histosol soil orders.

Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Hexapoda Class Insecta Order Diptera (Flies)No Taxon  ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))Infraorder Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges)Family Culicidae (Mosquitoes)Tribe AediniGenus AedesSpecies vexans (Inland Floodwater Mosquito)
reproduction\nutrients:
- Aedes vexans overwinter in the egg stage. Eggs are laid singly in sites subject to inundation by rain water.  It is known that Ae. vexans eggs need some moisture for embryonation.
- Only the female Aedes mosquito bites as it needs the protein in blood to develop its eggs.

- The mosquito becomes infective approximately seven days after it has bitten a person carrying the virus. This is the     extrinsic incubation period, during which time the virus replicates in the mosquito and reaches the salivary glands.

- Peak biting is at dawn and dusk.

- The average lifespan of an Aedes mosquito in Nature is two weeks.

- The mosquito can lay eggs about three times in its lifetime, and about 100 eggs are produced each time.
Adaption:
- Mosquitoes are cold-blooded creatures and do not generally bite in temperatures below 50F. In Connecticut, some adult mosquitoes become inactive with the onset of cold weather and enter into hibernation before the first frost. Other mosquitoes die in the fall but have winter-hardy eggs, which hibernate as embryos.
-The eggs can lie dormant in dry conditions for up to about nine months, after which they can hatch if exposed to favourable conditions, i.e. water and food.
 Its abundance depends upon availability of floodwater pools.
This is a floodwater mosquito, meaning that the eggs are laid offshore and when a heavy rain comes the water rises, floods the eggs and the egg hatches. Eggs are mainly found in freshwater pools and depressions. 

Virtually any transient water can support Ae. vexans larvae, but rainpools in unshaded areas produce the largest broods. 
Habitats:
The species is most common in grassy pools that border wooded areas but specimens can be encountered in partially shaded woodland pools, roadside ditches, and vernal pools in open fields. Climate change is not effecting the mosquito. 

species interactions:
Mosquitoes can have both positive and negative impacts on the ecosystem. As part of their useful role, the larvae of mosquitoes live in water and provide food for fish and other wildlife, including larger larvae of other species such as dragonflies. The larvae themselves eat microscopic organic matter in the water, helping to recycle it. Adult mosquitoes make up part of the diet of some insect-eating animals, such as birds, bats, adult dragonflies and spiders. They also help pollinate some flowers, when they consume nectar.

Geography/Habitat - 

Adaptations -  One of its key evolutionary characteristics is its versatility; it can grow in dry soil, allowing it the ability to survive droughts.
Nutrition - .Sunlight and oxygen
Reproduction - Its reproductive system is also quite interesting. It reproduces by either spores, or its rhizomes. Usually following a fire, the plant sprouts from its rhizomes. If not, they rely on the spores, which cling to the underside of the fern’s leaf, in areas called ‘sori’.

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)Class Arachnida (Arachnids)Order Araneae (Spiders)Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)No Taxon (Entelegynes )Family Lycosidae (Wolf Spiders)
Habitat- Preferred habitat varies between species but includes open grasslands, suburban lawns, deciduous forests, deserts, coastal dunes, sandy soil and wet terrain such as marshes and swamps.

Adaptations- Some wolf spiders will flip onto their backs, using all eight legs like a basket to hold an insect catch, and then bite the prey with sharp fangs to render it immobile.
Nutrition - Mainly insects.

Reproduction- The mating rituals of wolf spiders can vary depending on the species, as is true for most spider groups. Adult males follow silk and chemical cues left by females. Generally, males then use a combination of visual and seismic (vibratory) behaviors to court their potential mate. They often wave and rhythmically thump their pedipalps and/or abdomen on the ground. Most species also create sounds (usually inaudible to humans) by quickly rubbing together two corresponding parts of their body, known as "stridulatory files."

Geography/Habitat - American Crows are common birds of fields, open woodlands, and forests. They thrive around people, and you’ll often find them in agricultural fields, lawns, parking lots, athletic fields, roadsides, towns, and city garbage dumps.

Adaptations -  American Crows congregate in large numbers in winter to sleep in communal roosts. These roosts can be of a few hundred up to two million crows.
Nutrition - American Crows eat a vast array of foods, including grains, seeds, nuts, fruits, berries, and many kinds of small animals such as earthworms and mice. They eat many insects, including some crop pests, and also eat aquatic animals such as fish, young turtles, crayfish, mussels, and clams.  .
Reproduction - mating, both build the nest together.