iamishmaelhornberger's+Meadow+Ecosystem

= Thompson’s Island Meadow = Introduction

[|Thompson’s Island]. We thoroughly investigated there. The reason I am making this page is to inform you, about our ecosystem, the meadow.


Abiotic ==== We went to Thompson’s Island in the Boston Harbor. We got there by riding Captain Weinstein’s boat the [|“Outward Bound”]. There were many abiotic factors in our ecosystem. The weather conditions were sunny with hardly any clouds. The air temperature was warm at 63º. We found no water in our ecosystem. Some artificial abiotic things we found were a small piece of plastic, a book about insects and a plastic tube for holding insects. At the meadow we were given plastic vials for holding and observing insects. We identified them then let them go. We also all got books about different species of insects and how to identify them. Overall we used many methods to find abiotic and biotic features in our meadow ecosystem. If you want to see my web go here. ====

Biotic

==== We did our research at Thompson’s Island. There we found many biotic creatures. We found many primary consumers such as leafhoppers, crickets, grasshoppers and deer. In this meadow there were few secondary consumers. We found ants and gnats. There were many tertiary consumers in our ecosystem such as true bugs, coyotes, daddy longlegs and a hawk. Although there were many consumers in our ecosystem there were also many producers and decomposers. Some producers were grass, cattails and weeds. Along with these there were also oak trees and pine trees. Of course there were there were also organisms to decompose these producers and consumers. They were [|lichen], fungus, [|worms] and bacteria. The way the energy pyramid works for this ecosystem is the producers are on the bottom followed by primary consumers and secondary consumers. Finally there are tertiary consumers and decomposers to decompose everything there. In our ecosystem we found a lot of life. Conclus ====



Conclusion ==== My classmates and I went to Thompson’s Island. There we studied the meadow ecosystem. Doing this helped us learn many things. For example we learned that although you may not see it, fungus and bacteria are in every ecosystem. They are there to decompose things everyday. Also I learned that in some ecosystems there are not very many consumers. In our ecosystem there were only two secondary consumers! Another thing I learned was that many insects can be tertiary consumers like the [|true bug]. Our field trip to Thompson’s Island was fun but we also learned many, many new things there. ====

See my energy pyramid here
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 * __This is a movie i made about our ecosystem. Enjoy!__**