candlylou2

== =Hello, My name is Candy-Lou2. I am sixth grader at the [|Amigos School]. My class and I went on a field trip to two different ecosystems on Deer Island in the [|Boston Harbor]. Deer Island is not really an island anymore; it is a peninsula now thanks to big hurricane in the mid-1900's. On this field trip we observed lots of animals and plants. We drew what we saw and collected samples of plants and animals.We had lot of fun!= = = = = =We got there in a school bus. The meadow was located on [|Deer Island] on a hill. We could see Boston Harbor from the top of the hill on the island. We could also see Deer Island Water Treatment plant on the island, We could also see the airplanes taking off from Logan Airport nearby. My class and I did a lot of fieldwork. We got samples. We used thermometers to check air temperature. We used loupes to magnify objects that we wore investigating and books so that we could identify the organisms there in the meadow on top of the hill on Deer Island.= = = = We saw three producers and they were were yellow dandelions, trees and grass. The consumers that eat those plants are called herbivores which were nice small bees, all different kinds of butterflies and caterpillars. The consumers that eat herbivores are called omnivores or secondary consumers which are small preying mantises, birds and spiders. The carnivores or tertiary consumers were birds, with one being a kestrel (which is a kind of a hawk) and of course, us humans. The decomposers help to break all of the dead consumers and producers up so that their parts could be used again in the soil. The decomposers that I saw were brown mold on the leaves of some bushes, snails and worms. = = we caught animals, did field work and a lot more things. I learned lots of stuff like there are so many animals and plants in just one ecosystem. I learned that deer island was a island until the hurricane in the 1900's. And there are a lots of flowers out there than you think different colors and shapes i saw a really cool one it was yellow and black. We had lots of fun! go and see my beautiful web and pyramid =