baconbieberlove99

Introduction[[image:62540016.JPG.jpeg width="320" height="212" align="left" caption="The Boat We Took To Thompson Island. "Outward Bound""]]
=== Hi! to get started let me introduce myself. I’m baconbieberlove99 and I’m a sixth grader at the [|Amigos School] in [|Cambridge MA]. My assignment is to write a wiki for one out of the many wonderful fieldtrips our class has been on and I chose to write about the meadow ecosystem at[| Thompson Island]. This wasn’t just any old meadow. This meadow was filled with jaw dropping surprises that if you read on, you can find out more about ===

Abiotic
=== We would be getting to the meadow by boat. Now, this wasn’t just any boat like the ones you pass when you go to Boston. This boat was literally a needle in a haystack. We hopped on the unsteady boat and held on for dear life as it started to move. When we got the thumbs up that it was safe to stand up and move, I couldn’t believe my eyes. From the buildings of Boston to the wonderful waves of the ocean, I felt like I was on top of the world. We passed many other islands in the [|boston harbor] and before we knew it the boat ride was over and we were at the island. As I stepped off the boat I could feel hot air mixed with wind blowing in my face. From Boston to here it was a big change. Instead of huge skyscrapers, hundreds of fall colored leaves filled the sky. Instead of annoying pigeons, elegant seagulls swarmed around our heads. Instead of miles of smoke, clear water surrounded us. And best of all, instead of roads with loud cars there was a rocky path that would lead us on our adventure. ===

**Biotic ** ==== After the deathly walk, we finally arrived at the breath taking meadow. It was like in the movies when the characters come out of a dark cave and see light for the first time except this was 10x better. Even though I was tempted to roll and dance down the hill, I had to buckle down and work. Obviously the easiest things to find were consumers because they move or at least that’s what I thought. Everyone else seemed to be catching bugs left and right but I wasn’t so lucky. I was a magnet to the moths and butterflies but to the crickets and grasshoppers, not so much. They blended into the grass and milkweed so I relied on my ears to hear their chirps. At last I caught a cricket! No one paid any attention to me because compared to what they had just found, my cricket was old news. A daddy long leg! As they struggled to get the daddy long leg into the tube I took it into my own hands to find something new and exciting but in order to do this I had to look somewhere new and exciting too. The “new and exciting” place I decided to look smelled and looked like garbage. It was filled with plastic bottles, cans, a rope, some thorns but also a sunflower. Crawling under all of this mess was a family of true bugs. We gathered around a wooden bench to share our findings, other people had found slugs, worms, ants, ladybugs and even a caterpillar but no one had found a true bug. We discussed how the energy from one organism is transported to another. Like the grass, milkweed, trees, thorns and twigs give their energy to primary consumers like the crickets, butterflies and grasshoppers. Other consumers like ladybugs, true bugs and daddy long legs take energy from the 1st level consumers and producers, which make them 2nd level consumers. There are some consumers that don’t eat plants at all and just eat other, smaller insects. These 3rd level consumers consist of hawks, snakes and spiders. Anyways…back to the meadow. As we packed up our belongings I took one last look at this one of a kind meadow. This field trip was one I would never forget. ====

**Conclusion [[image:62540005.JPG width="320" height="212" align="right" caption="Student Posing For a Picture On the Way Back To the Boat"]]**
=== No other field trip could compare to the one I took to the meadow of [|Thompson Island] I had no idea that catching such a small bug like a grasshopper could be so hard. I most definitely had no idea what a true bug was and that even though it lived in a dump it was the most extravagant bug in the world. Best of all I overcame my fear of riding a boat. This was the only day where getting a sunburn was worth it. ===

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