My partner in the eco column unit was beloria. We made a eco column and it had a terrarium and an aquarium and in between we had a connecter tube.I think it went very well we had a lot of fun. We learned alot about ecosystems and we had to catch our own bugs which means we had to go outside it was really cold and we ha to dig around and find bugs when i found my slug it looked like a snake.

I learned that in ecosystems all the animals or organisms rely on each other and without one alot of the other ones die. Pollution is very bad for the ecosystem some types of pollution is like animal waste, trash that people leave or dump on the street, oil spills, soap from cars that you wash in your driveway. These are all very bad for the ecosystem but we can all make a difference if we try. We also learned about PH levels too high of a PH  level can be bad but too low of a PH level can also bad.

An ecosystem is a place where a lot of organisms live. Making a ecocolumn helped me understand because I saw how all the organisms relied on each other and i saw how important it was for them to get  all the sunshine they needed and water they needed.Our eco column 

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     Me and My group did a lot of stuff. One thing we did was put fertilizer in the experimental Eco column. The experimental Eco column was Nina's and Shoshanna's they put 7 droppers of fertilizer. Then we did the control eco column. We put 7 droppers of water in it. The control eco column was me and Shimon's. I worked with Shimon, Nina and Shoshanna. We did pretty well. But I dropped my control terrarium once, Shoshanna dropped it twice and Nina dropped it once. Shimon is lucky he never dropped it.
 
      I thought that the higher the PH scored the worse, then I realized that's not true. If the PH scored 3.5 then all fish die. Also if its anywhere between 4 to 7 its actually good for animals. I thought that was bad. But I realized I was wrong. I also learned when one animal dies it effects the whole ecosystem and when plants die they cant give oxygen and animals die cause they need oxygen.

SCIENCE

In our ecosystem unit we learned  what will happen if you pollute a ecocolumn things such as Fish, Snails, crickets and slugs will die. The cause of things dying is that when you pollute it the pollution has acidity in it which can kill plants and animals. My partner in this was Kaden and Lulu together we were doing this experiment. I think it went pretty well the only thing that could be better is that i would like a boy in my group.

I learned that ecosystems are forests and lakes. An ecocolumn is a bottled ecosystem. We learned how to measure acidity using pH scales you dip in the pH strip for 5 seconds and pull it out and line it up against a chart and record it down in our ecocolumn folder. One thing we did not know is that 7 and a half is the best pH level and to high and to low is bad and can kill fish. We thought that the higher the more acidic it is and the lower it is the better but is really the other way around.

An ecosystem is a place where there is life. For example, forests and lakes. Having a ecocolumn helped me understand ecosystems because it was like we were having our own ecosystems. Our grass is dying so the pollution must be the main effect.

Have you ever measured acidity before using a pH scale. If yes out of 5 stars how many stars would you give it?

Ecosystems

      We did at beginning of the year it is fun at first i was in a group with Yaniv. In the middle I changed now i'm in a group with Josh and Kaden. We each have a thing  every  group have ether fertilizer or salt water or acid rain we have salt water. It is fun some times.


       I have learned a lot about ecosystem. We have learned if one animal dies all animals will die because one animal eats another animal and if that animal dies all animals will die.They help the world like if we did not have a ecosystem the world  would be mest up.


    An ecosystem is in the woods or under the water where fish live. Learning about ecosystem's helped me because now I know if a whole species of fish die's then whatever eat's that species will die and so on.  An ecocolumn changes because people put things in the water and the woods everyday and they die.

What is your favorite part of an ecosystem?

Ecocolumn Reflection

First we started with cutting the three soda bottles in halves and quarters. The week after cutting the soda bottles in halves and quarters we took those halves and quarters and made a connector, an aquarium and a terrarium. We put water in the aquarium and put soil in the terrarium. Then Daniel, Shoshana, Nina and I were in the fertilizer group and I think we did a great job. We used a p.H. scale. If you want to know what a p.H. scale is it's what you use to see how acidic something is. You don't want it to be too low or too high. I worked with Daniel and I think we did a good job.

What I learned about ecosystems is that they can be destroyed, for example, Yellowstone national park had  grey wolves. They became extinct in the national park.  Eco-columns can get effected by pollution. Pollution isn't good for animals and all living things.  A p.H. scale is when you see how polluted something is and how something isn't. You can tell if something is polluted because the p.H. is too high or too low.

An Eco-system is a place like earth. Seattle has a lot of Eco-systems, for example, Seward Park, Mount Baker and Madrona are Eco-systems. If you are wondering what an Eco-system has to have, it needs to have, water, air and grass A.K.A land. When we made the Eco-columns it helped me understand Eco-systems. Our fish and grass all died. I think the fish died because we didn't feed it and the grass died because we did not water it.

Have you ever had an Eco-column?

Ecocolumn

 My aquarium has had many deaths, such as, Snails and Fish. My Ecocolumn my Fish used to, eat all the water fleas, and the Elodea. My Tarariomhas has a spider (witch just escaped!)  and a grasshopper (witch I think died!). There is almost no more Elodea because the fish ate all of it, No more water fleas becayse the fish ate them. If we don't have any more of those things if we don't feed them they could die (either way they are already dead)

 My fish rely's on Elodea, water and water fleas. My grass rely's on dirt and water so it's roots will grow. my grasshopper rely's on leaf litter so it can eat it and make it feel like it's at home. my grasshopper rely's on grass so it can eat it. my fish rely's on my snails so it will feel like it's in it's regular habitat. My snail rely's on water so it can stay alive.

Science

In the terrarium my group has really tall grass and that is the only living  feature of the terrarium.In the aquarium we have one fish alive and one living elodia and everything else is dead.it can affect the terrarium because there are no animals to give the plant affects carbon dioxide.

The fish need the water to live because without would  it they would die and they would have no where to swim.The fish give the plants carbon dioxide and the plants give the fish oxygen.





why do fish need plants?

Science

Our aquarium has changed a lot over time. I know this because our snails started out at the bottom and just started climbing up to the top. Sometimes stuff moves. Our elodea moved out of the water. Our snails keep rotating to new spots all the time.

Our terrarium has also changed. For example, our grass grew to the top in three days. Mrs. Ambrosio had to cut our weeds but they grew to the top again. We think our cricket jumped out because we haven’t seen it in five days! So there have been some crazy things that happened to our terrarium.

Our biotic snails rely on the abiotic water to live. For example, there's oxygen in the water which helps fish breath. Abotic things are non-living. Biotic things are living.

Have you ever made a terrarium?

Science- Aquarium and Terrarium by Nina

Our elodea died because it does not have any sun. Our duckweed have less and way lighter then what we started with. Both of our snails die and meeting each other they fell off the side. Our grass didn't grow in a couple days and then it started growing like crazy. Our spider made a web it used to not finish but it's perfect.

Biotic needs abiotic for example, sandollars needs sand or else sandollars will have no place to live. Fish need water to live or else they would be dead because they need water to survive.Bugs rely on the ground or else they would be in the air. Sea urchins they rely on water because that is were they live. Earthworms rely on dirt to live.
If you make a ecocolumns tell me about it?

SCIENCE

In science class we my group has been fish been through a lot our fish has died our cricket has died and 2 snails 3 worms this affects our ecocolumn greatly because with nothing else alive our Elodea is dying after our fish died nothing would supply the Elodea with carbon dioxide so it would start to die.We are planning a pollution experiment our group is putting road salt which would pollute the water badly so the Elodea would definitely would die and that would leave us with nothing except the grass which is not alive.

The relationship between biotic and abiotic is that a worm would have a relationship with the dirt because it lives there. Another example is that a spider and a web another example is that a cricket is biotic and it eats grass which is abiotic. One last example is that a Woodpecker is biotic and a tree which it lives on is abiotic.

Have you ever driven or been on a road with road salt if yes did it make a difference how did it feel?

Our Eco-columns

Our class made Eco-columns.
My Eco-columns has changed because our Elodea have started to die ever since we got our snails. I think this is happening because the snails may have eaten the Elodea. everything in our Terrarium has died I think the slug has trapped the animals trapped as ln between the soil and the slime so it can not breath. Our slug has escaped somehow from one said of the plastic (our terrarium) to the other side (underneath the terrarium). Our Fish has  also died and is laying at the bottom of our aquarium.

I think the seeds/grass rely on the soil to live. For example, The plants need the nutrients in the soil to live. The snails need the gravel to have a surface. The fish needs the water to live. For example, The fish can't breath out of water so it needs the water. The plants need the fish because the fish breath out carbon dioxide and the plants breathe in carbon dioxide. The fish need the plants because the plants breathe out oxygen and the fish breathe in oxygen.

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The components are plants, animals, water, dirt and gravel. The grass is changing. It’s dying, and on some grass there is white on the bottom of the grass leaf. Elodea looks like mini lily pads. Some of the elodea is turning white. They started green but more and more are changing. Our fish is going to die soon because it doesn’t have enough oxygen to live. Our cricket flew away. We got two snails. One was really big and one was really small. They died after a week or two, but when we got our fish we also got a new snail, and it is still alive. (We got our new snail a week ago.)

        Biotic components rely on each other. If there are too many snails that take oxygen there will not be enough for the fish. If there are plants, though, they will give oxygen. Biotic and abiotic components rely on each other. If there is no water (abiotic) then all the living things in the such as fish and snails.

Do you know what a ecosystem is.

Do you know any ecosystem friendships.

My Ecocolumn at School

At science we attached a aquarium and terrarium. Some of the water in the terrarium is going into the aquarium. In our aquarium our snails had babies and we have a fish. In are terrarium we have a slug, snail, cricket, roly poly and a worm. Are fish died with a bone sticking out of it. It's awesome!!

The animals eat the algae off the rock. Our animals need the dirt,leaf litter and rocks. Our animals need the elodea and duckweed to breath. it also rely on the holes at the top

Have you ever had an aquarium and terrarium?If so what animals did you have?