We went on two buses that took us straight to Odiorne point. The drive took about an hour and a half. When we got there, we immediatly went down to the tidepools to look for sealife. We found starfish, sea urchins, small fish, and lots and lost and LOTS of periwinkles along with some Lipids. We also trudged through the water to go see the drowned forest. There, we saw old tree stumps that were covered in water and were hundreds and hundreds of years old. After we were done with the tide pools and the ocean, we drove back to the school, on the way back, we stopped for Ice cream and then went back home.
Tides happen because of the Moon’s gravitational pull. The Moon has its own gravity even it it is nothing like ours. It is a lot more restrictive and you can jump about 2 or 3 feet at most off the ground before coming right back down. The moon’s gravity is far less restrictive. The waves and ocean are pulled tward the Moon, away from the shore, when the Moon is in a specific zone.
The zones we saw at odiorne point were all different colors. The one closest to the top is called the black zone, a crusty dry area full of rocks that is only corvered with ater at high tide. The one below it is the white zone, wheihc is filled with barnacles. The one below that is the brown zone which is filled with kelp and seaweed. The last one is called the red zone because it is filled with Irish moss. Which is a red leafy seaweed type plant.
I saw hundreds if not thousands of periwinkle snails. They were small, black and they had squichy little bodys inside their shells. I saw a standard seastar which was pink, about thye size of my hand, and had little suction cups of its limbs. We also saw blackish green sea urchins and lipids.
I think the most variety is at the bottom of the hill in the very shallow part of the tide pools because there is water there, and there is land, so the best of both worlds for sea stars and periwinkles and barnicles, animals that can survive in the water and out of the water. This place is perfect for any animal because of its water, and any land animal because of its lush kelp, that can act as a food source for any bigger animals that try to find some food in the tide pools.So I think the best place for variety is in the brown and a little bit of the red zones because the water washes over the red zone,letting some sea creatures in, giving the red and brown zones most of the variety of all the zones.
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