andres

===Hello, And welcome to my journey through the Forest Ecosystem, I hope that you can have as much fun as I did! You will learn the importance of an ecosystem, and learn why you shold not pollute it! I hope you have a good time! Andres You can also see my other classmates wikis here!===

Arnold Arboretum
===Hello, I am Andres and I go to the [|Amigos] school in Cambridge, Mass, And I am doing this Wiki because the world should know that polluting our world is very dangerous, Especially when Polluting a Forest Ecosystem, like the Arnold Arboretum.===

[[image:holeinground.jpg width="291" height="257" align="left" caption="Was a consumer here?"]]
===In a forest, you can feel calmness. At first, the noise of the bus makes you feel crazy. But when you start to observe animals under the microscope, and then put your pencil down on paper, you start to feel, “Wow, this place is beautiful, I hope I can come back here sometime!” But then you realize that if you pollute, you CANT come back here!.=== ===Our bus driver was grateful enough to drive us from the Amigos school in Cambridge Mass, up to the Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, which is not quite far away. We are very thankful for anyone who helped us with our field trips!=== ===If you pollute, you will be killing tons of animals such as Coyotes, Spiders and Snakes(Consumers that get there energy from eachother,Or from producers), destroying soil by killing Fungi, Snails, and Isopods(Decomposers which are VERY helpful to the forest ecosystem by decomposing dead consumers). And if you let a bit of that Coca-Cola touch the soil, you will kill Plants such as Seedlings, Flowers and Trees (Who are producers which get there energy from photosynthesis). Just by polluting you can kill all these things. You can see all these things and how you affect them by looking at a ecosystem Pyramid.===

It will tell you what is superior in an ecosystem, (Like an Coyote), and nd what goes at the bottom, (Producers).
===During the Field Trip of the Arnold Arboretum, we compared the Arboretum to OUR ecosystem. We also observed lot of producers, decomposers, and consumers. We ate an organic lunch, than went to study some more. I hope you learned a lot from this field trip, and had a lot of fun have as much fun as I did, and I suggest you go there yourself. Thank you for listening. Andres===

===Mi nombre es Andres y yo voy a la Escuela Amigos en la ciudad de Cambridge, Mass. En la clase de Estudios Sociales, estamos haciendo el proyecto de Wiki. A traves de el estamos descrubiendo la geografia del Arnold Arboretum.===

[[image:arnoldlg.gif width="428" height="417" align="right" caption="Un mapa del Arboretum del siglo XIX"]]
===Su amigo, el Sr. Olmstead, cultivo la tierra. La Universidad de Harvard hizo un contracto de mil anos con el Senor Arnold, en el cual este les permitia cultivar la tierra y hacer cualquiera cosa con ella.===

GEOGRAFIA
===El Arboretum esta localizado entre Jamaica Plain y Roslindale, Cubre 265 acres de tierra. La Universidad hizo que la tierra en el Arboretum tuviera muchos tipos de plantas, como pinos y arboles de cedro. Contiene muchas lomas y rios pequenos y una llanura en la centro.===

===Muchos turistas vienen al Arboretum para ver a plantas exoticas y animales diversos. En el ano 2000 el Arboretum tenia mas de 7,087 diferentes tipos de plantas y estan de acuerdo al sistema de classificacion Bentham y Hooker. El presupuesto de operacion annual es de 7,350,644 dolares.===