Fashionlover99's+Majorcan+Underwater+Ecosystem

Hi! I'm a sixth grader at the Amigos School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, although I live in Majorca, Spain most of the year. As a fellow Majorcan, I am a good friend of the sea, and that's why I decided to make this WIKI about Majorcan underwater ecosystems. I want people to learn more about the Majorcan sea and its animals by looking at this WIKI. Many children in [|Majorca] go to field trips related to the sea during their school years. I'm basing this WIKI on a field trip to Cabrera in the fifth grade. Cabrera is a small island that belongs to Majorca. The only life in this island is flora or fauna, the water is not polluted and no humans live on it. I hope that after reading this WIKI you learn a little more about Majorcan underwater ecosystems. Bye, fashionlover99

Cabrera is a small island to the south of Majorca. Now it's a [|national park], but in the past it has been used to keep Napoleon's prisoners and also to guard Majorca from pirates arriving from the south. The only possible way to get there is by boat. To get there, we took a bus from Palma (the capital of Majorca) to Colonia de Sant Jordi (a town in the south of Majorca) and then we took a boat to Cabrera. On the way there you are surrounded by sea and you constantly see small, rocky islands like //Conillera// or //Na Foradada.// On Cabrera we hiked, but also saw a lot of wildlife: plants, birds, and most of all, lizards. There were many scientists who told us about the animals and plants.

The Majorcan underwater ecosystem, like all other ecosystems, depends on water. Water and rocks are very important, but the biotic life is what makes this beautiful and lively. You can see my web here. Here is my lovely ecosystem web. This ecosystem depends mostlyposidonia, a type of seaweed that is very common in Majorcan waters. Another important producer is plankton, which feeds small fishes and dolphins. Important consumers would be sea urchins, they are very common but it's illegal to capture them. An important consumer from the secondary sector could be molluscs, like clams or muscles. Other consumers are crabs. These carnivores usually live in crevices in rocks, near beaches or in tidepools. The decomposers in this ecosystem are fungi and bacteria. They decompose the bodies of dead animals. The Energy Pyramid of this ecosystem would work like this: The sun makes producers grow, which are the food of primary consumers, who get eaten by carnivores and the waste that carnivores leave is decomposed by fungi and bacteria.