10.12.08+First+Trip+to+Sandy+Beach+Tide+Pools

__What kind of animal life do you notice?__ The types of animal life in our tide pool are many two different types of hermit crabs. Some are big, round, and black, and then some are small, badge and have a point at the end of their shell. There was one type of fish, it was badge with black stripes. They were small and could camouflage really well. There are also big black crabs, when they saw you they would run under a rock so we couldn’t get a picture of them, but we did see some. In the water there was some grey algae, it looked like it had some red on the tips. __what are the significant abiotic factors in this place?__ Some significant abiotic factors in our tide pool was temperature, the water was warm, and it was a sunny day there was no clouds, so that kept the water a nice temperature. The tide pool was mostly covered my rock, there wasn’t much coral you could only see patches of sand. The rock made it easy for the fish to blend in, we could barely see them we had to look really hard. __Why should it be a place to study?__ This tide pool should be a place to study because you don’t have to hike anywhere and get bitten by mosquito. Our tide pool is also easy access, it is not too close to the ocean, but it gets new water when the tide rises. It is relaxing too, when we sat down to write we were listening to the waves crashing, it was very relaxing.

For my assigned journal entery I have desided to describe the preditor- prey relationship in my tide pool. The predator- prey relationship in our tide pool is not the complicated. We inferred that the fish and the hermit crabs eat the algae, the algae and coral eat the microorganisms and the crabs eat the fish. That is the predator- prey relationship in our tide pool.