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WIKI-Charles River

Hey I’m “username” from Amigos School 6th grade in [|Cambridge Massachusetts]. I’m doing this WIKI to inform people about the importance of an ecosystem to the earth and how every little thing you do can effect any ecosystem. To show you this, my topic for my WIKI is the only river in the Boston area, the Charles River! My topic relates to my fieldtrip because the Charles River is a great and marvelous ecosystem with importance but now it is being changed by each piece of litter and each drop of dirt that falls on the river. I hope you enjoy my WIKI and learn about our awesome world.

The ecosystem that we went to was a small part of the [|Charles River]. We walked a small journey to the river because our school is very close to the part that we went to. When we arrived, there was a tree bark surrounded by decomposers. I was surprised with what I found when I looked in the river, I saw a dirty purse in thrown in the water. Also I glanced with amazement at a wire that was floating in the water close to the Canadian geese. Their was a Blue Jay twirping on one of the trees that were still standing around the tree being decomposed. The odor of the water was killing and I almost got a splinter touching the bark of a tree. I never thought that one small part of the Charles River could be so dirty and I would of never thought that all these abiotic life could harm all of the biotic.

Almost getting to the destination, in my opinion I thought that the section of the river was very clean and gorgeous. When I actually arrived everything looked polluted and nasty. On the banks of the Charles River I saw a purse, a wire and a sweater thrown in the water with no one to claim it. I thought that that was going to be the only pollution but I learned a secret that airplanes, boats and helicopters pollute because when it rains and they are dirty the rain carries the dirt and drips it into the water. That is why it is very important to clean and not to throw anything in the sewer or the river because it all becomes pollution.

 Food Web Check out my food web for Charles River. A food web is a web that shows which creature (producers, consumers, and decomposers) gets the energy from a specific thing. For example the duckweed gets their energy from the sun, while the duckweed gives energy to the Canadian Geese. Every thing joins together like a chain. That is why food webs are made of food chains. Another important fact that you should know is that depending on the abiotic that there is in the ecosystem, the biotic creatures change.

Check out my pyramid for Charles River  Thier are amazing creature all around us, producers, consumers and decomposers. They are very important to every single ecosystem in the universe. Every single one of them do something different to change the world for the better. In other words I mean think before you act because for every action their is an effect so take notice because you can change a part of the world.
 * Biotic**


 * Consumers **

Consumers are one of the wonderful creatures of the world. Consumers are categorized into three different categories: the herbivores, the carnivores and the omnivores. Herbivore is a fancy word for a plant eating consumer. Just think of the word carni-vor(**carne**-vor) it sounds like the Spanish word carne which isSpanish for meat, so a carnivore is a meat eating consumer. Now think, if you have a plant eating consumer and a meat eating consumer what do you think an omnivore is, you guessed it; it is a consumer that eats both meat and plants! In every ecosystem there is at least 1 consumer because consumers are very important to life, they are represented by a food pyramid and a food chain.

Some of the Primary Comsumers in Charles River are squirrels, and the Blue Jays. Also the Blue Jay can be a secondary consumer or a tertiary conumer because it sometimes eats plant, and meat. Other secondary consumers are Humans and Canadian Geese. Last but not leas their are the tertiary, cormorants and Humans.

Producers Producers are creatures that we need in our lives. One reason why we need them in our lives is because they give us glucose(sugar) and oxygen. Another reason is because they receive energy from the sun and pass it down to us.

Abiotic You might not know what abiotic is, but don't worry because I will tell you what an abiotic is and i will tell you some abiotic thing in my ecosystem. First of all an abiotic is a thing that is not alive, for example the Charles River is made up of a awsome abiotic thing, water or in other words H 2 O. Some other abiotic things are the brick bridges that cross the Charles River, another is the soil in the ground. A mayor abiotic thing is the air, even though yout can't see the air it is still all around you and especialy when you are close to a humid place ther is very humid.Boats, airplanes, and helicopters are also abiotic but they are the abiotic that are harmful to the enviorment. The reason why this is, is because when people don't clean their machinary, then when it rains the rain cleans the machinary and then the drt that was on them falls into the river. 