HelloLee++Deer+Island+ecosystem

====Hello my name is HelloLeeLee214 and I am a student at the [|Amigos School] I am writing this Wiki to let people know what my classmates and I learned. I will be sharing the data we collected at Deer Islands Shore, Deer Island is one of the [|Boston] Harbor Islands but now it's a peninsula. The data we collected was on a field trip we went on to identify the biotic and abiotic factors of Deer Island. ==== ====To get to Deer Island we took a school bus it was about a 45 min. drive from our school. Deer Island had a beautiful sight. It had hard packed sand, a navy blue ocean and little houses. You could hear the waves crashing on the rocks and smell the salinity in the air. This field trip was all about collecting data. Each student was to identify and draw 3 producers and 2 consumers. As the others did their individual work others in getting the data needed by testing the water. We used a kit from [|World Water Monitoring Day]. We tested the and it was 20 jtu the dissolved oxygen was 4 ppm. The water was 15ºc and the ph was 7. The data we collected seemed fine, then the students shared with the group.====

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====In Deer Island shore we found a lot of biotic life. We found some really neat produc ers. Some of the many we found were Irish moss, kelp, and rockweed. The Irish moss was looked like broccoli but much wider and had a small stem and it was more sensitive. The kelp was a greenish brown and it feels harder then it looks and has little holes in it. The rockweed is a plant that makes a type of glue and sticks to rocks. Some consumers we found were a crab, a seagull, and a periwinkle snail. The crab had a hard shell and was a tan color, the seagull had white feathers and a big beak, and the snail was small with a light tan color. Some decomposers were bacteria, mold and a horseshoe crab. These guys are in charge of breaking down dead material so the ocean is clean. This ecosystem needs all of these biotic factors to be successful. My pyramid shows were the most energy and how the energy from the sun goes up to the consumers. ====

====The field trip to Deer Island Shore was very interesting. We identified producers, consumers, and decomposers and made sket ches of them. W e also tested the water with the kit from World Water Monitoring Day with everything we needed. We learned that the water was pretty clean and that was great. This field trip was very fun and we worked hard. It was a windy day but we still had a lot of fun. Come see my great web to see everything we found!!! ==== =©2010=