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   ***First Visit **    Date: 10/12/08 Time observed: 9:42 AM-10:45 AM   Assigned role: Observer of plant life/fish life/photographer        abiotic factors in this place? Take some pictures. Explain why you think this area will be good to study for the rest of the semester.**                        As soon as we got to the tide pools at Sandy beach most of the tide pools were covered by water since it was considered high tide at the time we came. High tide occured around 9:30 where the waves were large and breaking where the tide pools where located, which means most of the pools were covered with water. Although most of the tide pools were covered we found a group of tide pools that weren't engulfed by water yet and were still good enough to take pictures and observations on. Each tide pool we observed had some sort of algae species growing on top of the rock. Living beside the algae were crabs, insects like flies and some sort of sea urchin like species attached to the rock. I could see signs of brown/black guppies size ranging             at about 1/2-1 inchand we also saw signs of crabs and hermit crabs living within the rock and water within the tide pools. The amount of beach we covered 1/4-1/2 a mile wether it was observing tide pools or just taking pictures of the scenery for our wiki site. Some abiotic factors such as rocks, water, sand, and temperature were the significant abiotic factors that were located in this area. The rocks played a role in helping to break the waves when they hit the shore and also to be shelter to the smaller species living within them. Without the rocks the species such as small guppies, crabs, algae, hermit crabs, guppies, etc. couldn't survive and thrive. The water (salt water) played a key role since the tide pools are controlled by the ocean, when the tides change the species within the tide pools get the signal and adapt to whatever the ocean tides are like. For instance if it's high tide then the species within the tide pools have to hide/prepare for the water coming into the tide pools. The sand helps to keep the rocks in place and keep the ocean waves from rising to far up the            beach into the roads. The temperature of the surroundings helps control the temperature within the tide pool and ocean and when the temperature of the surroundings change, the species that can't adapt to those surrounding temperatures die out. Each abiotic factor has it's own role in the Sandy Beach niche. Since the time of day of when we were observing the tide pools at were high tide the tide pools didn't show there full potential. I do think though that Sandy Beach is a good place to study for the rest of the semester since it offers a range of experimental ideas and also the tide pools are unique and offer a lot to study upon. Here are some more notes we took while observing the tide pools:   **Description:** Here we have a picture of the tide pool rock covered by Algae. This is one of the niches we observed (Rocks-tide pools) and took notes on. There are visibly 2 types of Algae growing on this particular rock, one light green colored and one dark green/brown colored. Most the rock in occupies by these algae species and are home to insects, crabs, hermit crabs, fish, etc. 
 * Free Journal Entry: Describe your area, what kind of plant life and animal life do you notice? What are the significant
 * Assigned Journal Entry: Describe the niches of at least 4 different organisms in your ecoplace: ** When we visited Sandy Beach there were varying niches that held different organisms within them. The first niche I observed was the sand niche in my ecoplace. The sand covered most of the beach with an ocassion of shrubs or rocks. The sand consisted of medium sized grains with colors ranging from shades of light brown with black sand mixed together in some places. The black sand was only found in a little patch out of the whole beach so I'm guessing there might be more black sand beneth the layer of sand that was only visible to me when I was observing the sand. I noticed the sand that was located closer to where the water breaks to the shore laid finer sand grains since the collison of sand and water created the rock to become finer. Then as I headed towards the top of the beach closer to where the plants and shrubs where the sand was thicker in size since the water didn't collide as powerfully as it did with the sand closer to the shore break. Another niche I observed was the ocean niche in my ecoplace. Although I couldn't physically go fully into the ocean the observations I collected from this niche were from an outside view of the ocean. The water color is a green/blue color mostly clear and not murky. The ocean from what I can see consists of plenty ocean life like crabs, algae, fish, etc. Also the waves today are high equaling high tide on the shore which means most of the tide pools will be covered. The waves seem to break further up on the sand today since it is now high tide. Another niche I observed was the rock (tide pool) niche of my ecoplace. This niche was especially interesting to observe since the tide pools were like a niche but within those tide pools seemed to be various other niches that coexisted. The rocks varied in size but were mostly made up of larger rocks that were at least 2 ft wide and tall. These rocks varied from regular types of rock to lava rocks that had holes in them so crabs and other organisms could live and hide in. Some organisms that   lived inside the rocks were: Algae, hermit crabs, crabs, and guppies. The rocks seemed to be mostly covered in algae that was a lime green and a dark green/brown color. In the picture shown below on almost every rock I observed were covered or mostly consisted of on algae cover on its surface. Since most of the tide pools rocks were covered by water the observations I just shared were observations of the rocks that weren't already fully covered by water. One last niche we observed were the bushes/plants located closer on the sand closer to the top of the beach were the parking lot was. These bushes/plants had to be adapted to the ocean/sand surroundings since they had to live and thrive there. Of these bushes and plants were palm trees, small shrubs, bushes, and other plants that you'd mostly only find at beaches or lcoations close to the beach. Although the bushes/plants were found on the sand itself, it didn't take up much of the beach habitat since the plants could only be found on the top half of the beach. I think the plants were only founded near the top portion of the beach because if the water was high tide it would engulf the plants that were closer to the shore and kill them.
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**Description:** This picture is just of the ocean and as you can see it was high tide with large swells and the ocean was a shade of blue and was clear enough to look into and see the tide pools engulfed below it. As you can see in the background there are surfers so this niche is inhabited by natural organisms but also by humans that take advantage of it's plentiful uses.

**Description:** Pictured here is a sand crab hole we found on the beach while observing and figuring out how the sand niche was inhabited and what inhabited it. We did find that the sand crab had once lived or was at the time living in the hole. It was clear that the sand niche provided shelter for the crab from predators such as humans or animals commonly found at the beach like pigeons or other birds.

**Description:** Here is a picture of some of the plant life found on Sandy beach. The picture on the right shows a picture of some of the shrubs found at the top portion of the beach along with palm trees and other bushes. The picture of the left shows a close up of those shrubs. This plant is part of the plant niche found in our ecoplace.

that grow on the beach. The row of plants as you can see in the picture stretchs across a vast majority of the beach. The plants consist of varieties from bushes to palm trees. Each plant may or may not play a role in the Sandy Beach habitat.
 * [[image:heyyy.png width="314" height="211" align="left"]]Description:** This pictures shows the plants

**Description:** Here we have a close up of the center of one of the tide pools. As you can see there is a bunch of Algae but you can't really see them, but there are guppies in the bottom center part of the picture. The water in the tide pool is clear even though it was high tide and the ocean waves were splashing and sea foam was forming around the tide pools. Towards the bottom right of the picture is a black crab that was just sitting and trying to hide from the camera!

<span style="color: rgb(78, 72, 244);">   **Description:** Here is a picture of Sandy beach from the Tide pools located on the right end of the beach. As you can see it was high tide and the waves were on the large end scale. This picture displays two key abiotic factors in the Sandy beach ecoplace which are, sand and water (ocean water.) These two abiotic factors both play significant roles in the eco- place.

<span style="color: rgb(78, 72, 244);"> **<span style="display: block; font-size: 160%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(11, 203, 47); background-color: rgb(175, 248, 232); text-align: left;">*Second Visit **  <span style="color: rgb(78, 72, 244);"> Date: 11/1/08 Time observed: 8:30 AM-10:45 AM <span style="display: block; color: rgb(16, 218, 78); text-align: left;">Assigned role: Observer of plant life/fish life/photographer Perhaps you are focusing on the Insect life, the Fish life, the Plant life, or the Abiotic Factors that heavily effect the community of living things in your designated Eco-Place. Please choose your focus with consideration to others in your group.** Today when we arrived at the tide pools we were pleased to see that it was low tide and the tide pools were clear and visible, which would make it easier for us when we observed them. This observation session I was assigned the roles of observer of plant life, fish life, and being a photographer. I noticed that the last time we visited the tide pools it was high tide and the only little bunch of fish I saw were guppies. This time it was low tide and I saw more than 4 or 5 different varieties of fish, which included guppies, tiger fish, and more. Also the situation was the same for plant life, today I noticed there was more of a variety of plant compared to the first visit. For fish life I observed 2 types of guppies, tiger fish, and a rainbow colored fish which specific name I do not know of. The guppies ranged in size of 1 inch-2 inch. One type of guppy had black color with white stripes and the other type of guppy was only a black color. They seemed to be eating at the time I was observing them, and they seemed to be eating the algae that were found on the rocks within their tide pool. Although there were 2 types of guppies there was one type of guppy that I found more of while I observed the different tide pools. This guppy was faster in speed due to its longer fin that was located from its head to its tail area. I figured that this type of guppy was more fit for this environment so it reproduced and started to overthrow the other less fit guppy. A question that I started to think about was that I noticed the fish especially the guppies fed on the light green colored algae more then it fed on the dark brown colored algae. I wondered if this was just coincidence or maybe the green colored algae was more suited to the fish’s diets. I figured that maybe I could answer this question, as I got further into the project where I could back up my question with data. For plant life I observed a variety of algae and other plants located in the tide pools. Aside from just algae I saw plants such as sea enemies and algae that was shaped like half circles. Some plants were light green colored and others were white/light yellow color. These plants seemed to grow in little bunches rather than spread out throughout all of the tide pools I observed. Also The plants that grew inside of the water seemed to be more of the light yellow/white color and the plants that grew on the outside of the water were greener/dark brown color. The plants seemed to grow more abundantly on the outsides of each of the tide pools instead of inside the tide pools. This algae located in the tide pools were the source of food to some of the fishes I observed that were eating them as we took notes on them. I noticed that on a lot of the tide pools they had more algae and other plants located on the outsides of the pools. I wondered if that was just a coincidence or maybe there was a reason that I could figure out when I got further into this project. **Assigned Journal Entry: Write 400-600 words about some of the environmental (or predatory) pressures that are driving Natural Selection in your Eco-place. Provide at least THREE examples of organisms in your Eco-place with heritable variations that might make them more (or less) fit than their intra-species competitors.** When talking about pressures or predators in our tide pool environment the biggest predator and pressure would have to be human interactions. In a picture listed shows how humans liter the tide pools area which is a way of harming the organisms that inhabit the tide pools. 3 examples of organisms that are being driven to natural selection are: crabs, guppies, and even pigeons. There were two types of crabs that I observed in the tide pools. One type was a smaller crab (1/2-1 inch) that’s color blended more into the rocks and the crab was also faster in speed. The other type of crab was larger (1-2 1/2 inch) and had light marking on it’s shell which would make it easier to spot by predators. This crab would also move much slower in speed then the other crab. By comparing these two types of crabs the smaller crab would survive better in this environment and would reproduce more then the larger crab. Another type of organism being driven to natural selection would have to be the guppies. One type of guppy was small (1-1 1/2 inch) and had light colored spots on it’s dark colored overall shade. This guppy was also fast and had quick reactions to when it sensed danger like when I tried to splash the water by it to see how fast it really moved. The other type of guppy was larger (2-3 inch) and had a dark color with a long fin extending from it’s head to it’s tail area. This would make this guppy faster then the smaller guppy but it would also be harder for this guppy since it was larger in size. By comparing these two types of guppies natural selection would soon show which guppy does infact suit this environment better then the other type. One last type of organism being driven to natural selection are the pigeons that live at the tide pools and eat the organisms that inhabit them. One type of pigeon was small (10 inch-11 inch) and were dark colored that blended well into the rocks. Another type of pigeon was larger (12 inch-14 inch) and were white colored or off white colored. There were much more dark pigeons then the lighted pigeons. By comparing these two pigeons it was clear that with natural selection had favored the darker pigeons since they blend in better with the tide pool rocks which explains why there are much more dark pigeons then there are light. All these examples are being pressures by predators like humans. The crabs and guppies are being pressured by predators like pigeons and humans. The pigeon might we put under pressure by humans since they’re littering the tide pools which will kill the animals the pigeons eat which will put more pressure on the pigeons to find food.
 * Free Journal Entry: At this time you should have taken on an ASSIGNED ROLE that will narrow your interest in this Eco-place.

**<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(56, 220, 155);">Pictures- ** **Description:** Here you have a picture of the sand niche but also a picture of one of the organisms inhabiting this niche, which is a sand crab. As you can see in the picture to the left circled by the green line. The crab had it's hole in the sand right next to where I took this picture which means it probably lived or lives there currently.

**Description:** Here we see how humans keep littering the tide pool areas which are putting more pressure on some organisms to find food to eat that live in the tide pools. These "foods' are organisms that live inside the tide pools, that are dying since the litter is contaminating there living space. Human interactions are really putting pressure on different species to try to find food despite the obstacles like litter in the tide pools.

**Description:** Here you see a picture of one of the larger tide pools I was observing. You can see how the rocks are dark in color and range in sizes. The tide was low today so you can see how larger the rocks look when the tide is low compared to when the tide is high.

**Description:** Here you see 4 different types of fish I saw when I was observing the tide pools. In the bottom right picture you can't really see the other type of guppy but I couldn't get a clear shot of it up close. Although each fish was different they shared the same type of niche, which was the tide pool niche. All 4 fishes were eating when I was observing them so I guess it was that time of day to eat for fish. Maybe since the sun started to come out the fish started to eat.

**Description:** Here you see two different types of plants I saw when observing the tide pools. The plant to the left was like a stringy looking plant that was about 12 inch in length. The plant to the right although it looks like grass is really algae. The algae grew inside the water and was a type of algae I didn't see when I observed the tide pools at my last visit. Both these plants I payed close attention to since one of my assigned roles was plant life.

**Description:** Here is a picture of plants that were found outside of the tide pool area. The main reason why I put this picture up here was because the shape of the leaves almost exactly resembled the shape of the algae found in one of the tide pools I observed. It was a coincidence or maybe it was scientific. Either way I wanted to show how plant life on land can resemble plant life in the water.

**Description:** This is another picture of the tide pools when the water was circulating in and out of them.

<span style="color: rgb(78, 72, 244);"> **<span style="display: block; font-size: 160%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(11, 203, 47); background-color: rgb(175, 248, 232); text-align: left;">*Third Visit **  <span style="color: rgb(78, 72, 244);"> Date: 11/23/08 Time observed: 8:15 AM-9:45 AM <span style="display: block; color: rgb(16, 218, 78); text-align: left;">Assigned role: Observer of plant life/fish life/photographer

<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(56, 220, 155);"> **Continue your focused observations and compare them to previous observations. Make inferences (relevant to your assigned role) and propose hypotheses. Finally, create 3** __//testable//__ **hypotheses from these inferences. You should use the "If… Then… " format. 400-600 words.** Today was somewhat a hard day to take observations. Since the weather was overcast and it was colder I thought my observations would be different compared to the observations I took the past visits when the weather was sunny. Today we visited about an hour earlier than the last visit so the amount of life in the water decreased in numbers during this visit. I hypothesized that since we came earlier during the morning plus the weather change, this is why my observations would be different from the observations from last couple visits. I noticed also that the fish that were usually out and seeable were not out. Although we did see a large rainbow fish in the tide pool, larger than the fish we were used to seeing which were small-medium sized guppies, tiger fish, rainbow fish, etc. This week I had to come up with an experiment that I could conduct at the tide pools. Since one of my jobs were observer or plant life, I noticed that the different kinds of species of plants differ from tide pool to tide pool. So I decided to come up with a variable that could be tested which was the distance the tide pool is from the beach (sand area.) I decided to make my hypothesis, If the tide pool is located closer to the beach then the tide pool will have less amount of different plant species living in it. This hypothesis was tested by making a line (mark) on the sand located on the beach then I measured from that line to the different tide pools that slowly became further and further from the line. I infer that this hypothesis will be true since when the tide pool is located closer to the beach then it will not get as much water from the ocean washed up into it’s rock. If the ocean water doesn’t make it to the rock then the rock will most likely not have any algae which is one of the main simple food a tide pool needs in order to support fish like guppies. This data table shows my experiment data I collected by conduction my experiment today. The distance of the tide pool from starting point on the beach in ft is the distance from the line on the beach to the start of the tide pool I chose to observe. There were 2 tide pools I looked at, the first was the closest tide pool with no plant life in it which differs completely with the tide pool I observed at the very edge of the tide pool area onlooking the ocean. As you can see this data table backed up my hypothesis that said, <span style="color: rgb(1, 0, 255);">//If the tide pool is located closer to the beach then the tide pool will have less amount of different plant species living in it.// starting point on the beach (ft)**   ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Number of Different Species Present **  ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Species **   ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description of Species **  || 66 1/2   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 type of green algae || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The algae is a very thin layer of green/yellow colored. The species can be found on the bottom of the tide pool covering the rocks and sediment found on the bottom of the tide pool. ||  || 6 || 6 different types of plant life || Each type of plant life is as I know of a type of algae. Except for one of the plants I saw which was a type of white colored thin sea string. The algae types ranged in shapes, colors, and sizes. Some of the colors were green, brown, and orange. All these types of plants were found inside and on top of the tide pool. Although the plants could be found in the same tide pool they seemed to play different roles in the tide pool Eco-system. If you want to see the different types you can check the pictures shown below for a view of them. ||
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 * 20 3/4 || 0 || none || This tide pool has no sign of plant life. ||
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<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(14, 200, 101);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">_   <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">    __Sandy Beach Tide Pool Food Web<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> __ <span style="color: rgb(19, 110, 246);">Assigned Journal Entry:

• Describe some of the community interactions you observe (400-600 words) OR

• Create a food web that includes 10 different types of organisms in your Eco-space (display as a picture) OR

• Create an energy pyramid, biomass pyramid or pyramid of numbers for your Eco-space (display as a picture)

<span style="font-size: 200%; color: rgb(2, 237, 92);"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 200%; color: rgb(2, 237, 92);">Pictures- Description: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This picture shows the 3 tide pools I observed to prove my hypothesis true or false. I chose 3 tide pools after the line drawn on the beach shown below. The picture below is a shot of the line and the rest of the tide pools in the forward direction.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">__ Description: This shows the 6 different algae that I observed in the largest of my 3 tide pools. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">

<span style="color: rgb(78, 72, 244);"> **<span style="display: block; font-size: 160%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(11, 203, 47); background-color: rgb(175, 248, 232); text-align: left;">*Fourth Visit **  <span style="color: rgb(78, 72, 244);"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(11, 203, 47); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(3, 2, 2);"> Date: 12/7/08 Time observed: 8:11 AM-8:55 AM  <span style="color: rgb(78, 72, 244);"> <span style="display: block; color: rgb(16, 218, 78); text-align: left;">Assigned role: Observer of plant life/fish life/photographer

** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; display: block;">Assigned Journal Entry: Continue focused observations. Compare these observations to your previous observations. Conduct your experiment using one of the hypotheses you generated during your third visit. Describe procedures. Put data in tables or graphs. Draw conclusions based on the results of your experiment. ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;">The first thing I noticed was the change in weather conditions at the tide pools. The tide was exceptionally high today, the highest I've ever seen it at yet. Since the weather changed and became colder and windier with the sun behind the gray clouds, there was far less organisms freely roaming through out the tide pools. I found it kind of ironic to how there were also exceptional amounts of human interaction today like 10-12 scuba divers plus many tourists just roaming around the tide pools, yet most of the organisms were hiding from the bad weather conditions.The temperature of the air was around 70ºF or 21ºC. So this temperature in the air was colder than usual, the usual temperature although I didn't record it for the first couple experiments was around 75-78ºC. When talking about human interaction I've noticed going back to my other visits that there is a lot of spearing, fishing, and netting going on around and in the tide pools. For example there are crab shells and fishing line lying around all over the tide pools that have been there for the past times I have visited these same tide pools. Today Sam and Me (my partner) were walking through the tide pool area and found a huge eel that was speared and left out of the rocks. The eel was fully in tact except it was dead I'm guessing because it was speared which would explain the 1/2 inch wide hole by it's head. In the pictures below show the eel and how freshly caught it must have been. The dead eel would also explain the reason for the putrid smell that seemed to hover over the tide pools today along with the sworm of gnats and flies also hovering and inside the tide pools. By gathering data from the first couple visits last visit before this one I conducted my experiment which was formed around my hypothesis that //<span style="color: rgb(2, 11, 242);">If the tide pool is located closer to the beach then the tide pool will have less amount of different plant species living in it. //<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">By forming this experiment I made a line on sand on the beach which would be my starting point. After I took my measuring tape and measured from that starting point to the first tide pool found on the beach with water inside of it. After I observed and took notes and measurements on that tide pool I measured from the starting point to the furthest tide pool located right before the tide pools dropped to just ocean. After measuring and taking notes about that tide pool I made a data table showing the differences in the tide pools that were the outcome of what I predicted they'd be. Since my prediction was that the further away the more species lived inside the tide pool, I was right. Shown below is the data table that shows the further away the tide pool is from the beach the more species it has living inside of it.

**  ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Description of Species **   ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> || 66 1/2  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 type of green algae || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The algae is a very thin layer of green/yellow colored. The species can be found on the bottom of the tide pool covering the rocks and sediment found on the bottom of the tide pool. ||  || 6 || 6 different types of plant life || Each type of plant life is as I know of a type of algae. Except for one of the plants I saw which was a type of white colored thin sea string. The algae types ranged in shapes, colors, and sizes. Some of the colors were green, brown, and orange. All these types of plants were found inside and on top of the tide pool. Although the plants could be found in the same tide pool they seemed to play different roles in the tide pool Eco-system. If you want to see the different types you can check the pictures shown below for a view of them. ||
 * **Distance of tide pool from starting point on the beach (ft)** ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Number of Different species present**   ||= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Species
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(3, 171, 73); font-size: 120%;">**//Nectocarcinus integrifrons// - Red Swimmer Crab** Kingdom: Animilia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Description: Here we have a swimmer crab as it says on the internet. Although it can swim in the water it lived within seaweed/ algae that is not to low below the surface of the w ater. We found this crab on the tide pool rocks and there were many other like it found on the rocks of the Sandy Beach Tide Pools. Also the crab seems to vary in sizes since this is one of the larger ones I've seen yet. About 4-5 inches in length.
 * Assigned Journal Entry: Create a diagram representing the different aspects of the carbon cycle as it flows throughout your eco-place OR Take a picture of 5 different organisms and classify them by Kingdom, Phylum, Class and Order (you may go further if you like). Make sure you also identify them by their "common name". **

<span style="color: rgb(3, 216, 72); font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(3, 171, 73); font-size: 120%;">**//Muraena Helena// - Moray Eel** Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Osteichtyes Order: Anguilliformes

Description: Here we have a Moray Eel commonly found in hawaii tide pools. Although this one was speared it was found here in the Sandy beach tide pools. I found this one at one of the larger tide pools and it was also freshly speared since the skin and even the eyes seemed to be just deceased. The color of the eel was a brown/red with brown dots and the teeth were small yet very sharp looking. The eel was about 2 ft. In length and around 3-4 pounds in weight.

//<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(3, 171, 73); font-size: 120%;">**Dardanus Pedunculatus- Unauna (hermit crab)** // Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malocostraca Order: Decapoda Family: Diogenidie

Description: Here we have a Hawaiian hermit crab. Compared to some hermit crabs found on the mainland and deeper in the ocean this hermit crab is small and compact. When I observed it it was very active and was running from one rock to the other trying to find shade or something from the bad weather. These hermit crabs dont grow that large in size.

//<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(3, 171, 73); font-size: 120%;">**Heliocidaris Erythrogramma- Purple Sea Urchin** // Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Echinodermata Class: Echinoidea Order: Echinoida

Description: This sea urchin was found (picture zoomed in) in one of the larger tide pools that held a lot of different types of organisms. This sea urchin was one of only 3 of its type that I seemed to observe in this tide pool. The sea urchin itself was about 2 inches wide and the spears were about 1/2 inch long. I'm pretty sure these are the poisonous ones so I had to watch my step when walking past and in that tide pool.

//<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; color: rgb(3, 171, 73); font-size: 120%;"> **Finescale Tiger Fish** // Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes

Description: The picture located on the very top left if the picture of the finescale tiger fish. They call it a tiger fish after the stripes that are found around the tiger fish's body. This fish was about 3 inches long and was a fast swimmer. I found it in one of the larger tide pools with plenty of other different kinds of fish as seen in the picture to the left. The other two fish are guppies and one kind of rainbow fish. There was mostly tiger fish located in this tide pool.

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