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=Deer Island Tide Pool by SS =

Deer Island Tide Pool Ecosystems Hi! My name is ‘sdolphindude’. I go to the  [|Amigos School] in Cambridge, MA. At Amigos, we learn in both English and Spanish I am doing this wiki to teach others as much as I know about ecosystems. I went on a field trip to Deer Island (which is now a peninsula) and visited the Tide Pool’s. We learned so much about meadow and shoreline ecosystems.

Our class took a field trip to [|Deer Island] and visited the tide pools. We went on a school bus past a little village to arrive at Deer Island. After that, we walked a short distance around the windy hill to arrive at the seashore. The natural abiotic our class found was the sun, water, rocks and sand. The artificial was glass, plastic, and other garbage we found lying around.

At the tide pool ecosystem, there was lots of biotic life. Little crabs waddled around scurrying under rocks. Barnacles and snails froze on jagged stones as the water level increased and decreased. Algae, elodea, rockweed, Irish moss, and duckweed shimmered emerald green, producing glucose in the sunlight. Mold, bacteria and microbes lay all over composting and fertilizing the earth. Here is my food web for this ecosystem.

On the bottom of the Energy Pyramid, is the sun. The beginning of all energy. Next are the Decomposers, eliminating dead matter and turning it to compost. Next come producers. They turn solar energy into food energy-glucose. Above that are primary consumers (herbivore) they eat only plants. Then comes secondary consumers (omnivores) omnivores eat both plants and animals. On top are the tertiary consumers. They are carnivores, eating only animals.

At the Deer Island tide pools, I learned about so much. I learned that there could be lots of ecosystems in one place. At Deer Island there was the tide pools, the meadow, the forest, and the ocean. We only visited the tide pools and the meadow. We observed seagulls cracking open mussel shells. Crabs skittered away through the sand and under rocks as we tried to grab at them. All in all, this field trip ruled!!!!