Meadow+Ecosystem+6A

Hello, I’m "chocochiporeo169" and I go to the [|Amigos School]. I’m doing this Wiki to show the world about one of my near by ecosystems. In the last couple of months we have been going on fieldtrips to discover different ecosystems, from the meadow, to the ocean. I will be telling you about the meadow in [|Deer Island in Boston], that is the home to many different creatures and abiotic. In the field trip we learned about animals, big and small, and had a great time.

We went to Deer Island’s meadow area, at the top of the hill that’s surrounded by ocean. We were driven there by the school busses that we paid for. There was a gust of wind that made everybody’s hair dance in the air. We scribbled down information and examined the interesting things we saw. There are some things in the air you can’t see though, like the CO2, the O2, and many other things that are invisible to the naked eye. It was very sunny, which made the fieldtrip even more exciting. A meadow has producers, and the producers depend partly on the soil to live. The soil is where the producers get the nutrients they need to stay healthy. The air was 65ºF and the soil was 64ºF, in which we utilized thermometers. There were gray rocks scattered here and there along the soil. Some rocks hold some minerals that the plants can use. Giving light and life to everything, there was the sun.

In the meadow of Deer Island, at the top of the hill, there is an abundance of life! The top 3 producers that I saw there were grass, goldenrod, and dandelions. The grass was everywhere. It was the most dominant. The golden rod is the most elegant because of its yellow-golden tone. The dandelions (even though they are weeds) they are still very pretty. Then, the hungry consumers eat these. The consumers that I mostly saw were the fuzzy wooly caterpillars, the 5-inch praying mantis, and the very hungry baby caterpillars. They eat the producers for their energy. When both consumers and producers die nature calls for the best breaking- down organisms, the decomposers. The decomposers at the meadow are, the dirty earthworms, the microscopic bacteria, and the ball-shaped isopods. They decompose to get the energy from the dead organisms. So there you have it; that was our experience at the meadow of Deer Island. It is full of life. I learned many things and did fun stuff. I searched for consumers and producers, which I haven’t done before. I saw a HUGE praying mantis up close and learned that the female praying mantises are light brown, like dried-out soil. I found out that in my opinion wooly caterpillars are really cute! I loved observing this ecosystem. It was a great experience!

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