Deer+Island+Tidepool+6B

=__//**Rocky Shore/Tide Pool Ecosystem at Deer Island**//__=

__//**Introduction**//__
If you are looking for an **ecosystem** expert, you have come to the right place. I am studying about **ecosystems** at the [|Amigos School]**.** Food chains, food webs and energy pyramids are an important part of understanding ecosystems. Food chains and food webs connect organisms by what gives them //**energy**// (what they eat) and **energy pyramids** arrange organisms by the //**energy**// they pass on.

__//**Project**//__
My class has done a project about ecosystems. We organized into 4 groups and each got an ecosystem that we visited to make a food web an energy pyramid and a list of all the biotic and abiotic (living and unliving) things in our ecosystem. My group got to describe the rocky beach/tide pool ecosystem **on [|Deer Island] .** **The** biotic **organisms are catogorized into smaller groups;** (organisms that break down dead organisms ).
 * herbevors** (organisms that only eat producers **),** **producers** ( organisms that convert solar energy to chemical energy. ), **carnivors** (organisms that only eat meat ) an, **hebivors** (organisms that eat both produsers and meat forinstance us ) and **decomposers**

(class maits observing and colecting organisms in the rocky beach/tide pool ecosystem)


 * In the rocky beach/tide pool ecosystem the herbivors on shore are periwinkles and in the ocean are blue muscels and clams .**


 * In this ecosystem the producers in the ocean are kelp, rock weed, knoted wrack, other types of sea wead, algae prodists and fido plankton .**

fish are not ) and on shore are crabs .**
 * In this ecosystem the carnivors in the ocean are barnacles and jelly's ( jelly fish is incorrect because they are invertabrates and

herring gull .**
 * In this ecosystem the omnivors in the ocean are zoo plankton and on shore are seagulls,semiplated sand piper and the


 * In this ecosystem the decomposers in rhe ocean are briophite on shore are beach flies and on both are bacteria.**

(the energy pyramid for this ecosystem)

**__//Abiotic//__**
pH:6-7 slightly acidic The Rocky Shore faces the [|Boston Harbor] on Deer Island. There are rocks and shells all over the ground. Deer Island is a peninsula in Winthrop, Massachusetts. There is salt water and lots of rocks that are stuck in the ground, but near the shore you can lift them. The air pretty warm because the peninsula cuts off the wind. Deer Island once was an island until a huricane conected the island to the land with earth it had picked up forming it into a peninsula.
 * Air temperature:63ºF**
 * Land:peninsula**
 * Ocean temperature:60º/62ºF**

__//**Extra Information**//__
Ecosystems **are in danger!** Global warming **is ruining ecosystems and fast. Here are some things you can do to save these beoutiful**
 * ecosystems.**

**__//**Things you can do**//__**

 * Not use to much energy(turn of lights when it's not nececary etc.)****
 * recycle****
 * tell others****

**__//**For more information about global warming and ecosystems**//__**

 * surf the web****
 * watch the movie an inconvenient truth****
 * see the rest of the articles under bostonecosystems****
 * ask question******s**

=//**Thank you**//=