Tidepool+Ecosystem+6A+by+Jal

Hi my name is “jal15” and I go to the Amigos School. I’m doing this Wiki to show anyone about what an ecosystem is. You may find this information very interesting. I’m also doing this Wiki to about abiotic and biotic factors of the ocean life. The abiotic life is pretty cool like you can detect abiotic factors is by your senses. For biotic is the things or some kind of living object. The ecosystem that I’m doing is the Tide pool. The tide pool is a very beautiful ocean life. You have the underwater animals such as the sponge and fish. Then you have the land creatures such as the crab and barnacle. If you just listen and see, you can hear the waves and wind, also see many things. Walking on it is so comfortable. Just the ecosystem itself is so heart-warming and wonderful. It relates to the field trip because it’s in the Deer Island. Deer Island is a place in the Boston Harbor Island. There are two ecosystems there the Meadow and Shoreline. The tide pool is near the shoreline so; we decided to observe the place.

The location that we went to was to the Deer Island of the Boston Harbor Island in Boston. It’s a nice view of the ocean. We got there by a school bus. It was a nice 64F mostly cloudy day. I was sort of disappointed because we low at 8:30 a.m. The water was cool 63ºF/17ºC, not that cold. The turbidity was 0JTU which is clear and the best! The DO (dissolved oxygen) was 4ppm, which is 42 oxygen, and the pH is 7, which is neutral. You could hear the saltwater waves splash and crash against the humongous rocks. You could also hear the breezy thick waves. The smell that you could mostly smell is the salty, strong saltwater. You could see the nice ocean blue water and black, gray even mixed rocks. You could see the snow-white seagulls and multi-colored barnacles.

The ecosystem that I’m doing is the tide pool. There were producers, consumers and decomposers. By the water there are a lot of sea life. One producer is the seaweed, it’s green, slimy looking and it lives on rocks, sometimes. Another producer is algae it’s mostly in clumps, light greenish and it’s near the surface of the water. The third producer is plankton microscopic plants. One consumer is the crab, it’s darkish colors and hides under rocks. Another consumer is the barnacle, it’s different and lives on rocks. The third consumer is the fish, it was black and swam in the water. One decomposer is the bacteria, it’s everywhere and microscopic. Another is the microbes on the rocks, it’s also microscopic. The last decomposer is he beach fleas, it is green too. The consumers eat the producers and the producers pass on the energy to the consumers.

The tidepool is an interesting place to study an ecosystem. There’s the abiotic factors such like the water and wind. Then there’s the biotic factors such like the crab and barnacles. Also there are the consumers: primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers. But you can’t forget the most important one, which is the producers! You’re also forgetting the decomposers. Everything else is just gorgeous!! One thing that I learned is that seaweed are decomposers also. Another thing that I did was check the water temperature. The water temp. was 63ºF/17ºC. The third thing that I did was test turbidity, DO, ammonia, pH, and nitrogen. All these things were fun. Overall the field trip was amazing learning about a tideool ecosystem. All the sea life was just so beautiful to look. But personally I think that the ocean ecosystem is the best ecosystem. But that’s my opinion. What’s yours?