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Case Study : ' Happy Valley 2016 ' Mini Biome Report

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Happy Valley 2016
Mini Biome Report By: Kimia
Table of Contents

Pamphlet……………………………………………………………………1
Natural Bridges……………………………………………………………..2
Personal Response…………………………………………………………..4
Handouts from the Trip………………………………………………………5
What’s in the Bag?……………………………………………………………7
Survival of Life……………………………………………………………….8
Leaf Mixture Chromatography………………………………………………..9
Math…………………………………………………………………………11

Natural Bridges

Natural Bridges State Beach is a beach known for its viewing points of shore birds, migrating whales, seals, and otters. Its tide pools, which give a glimpse of colorful ocean life such as sea stars, crabs, and sea anemones, can be explored, and large area of coastal scrub and grasslands bring native wildflowers in the spring. Natural Bridges is named for the naturally occurring mudstone bridges that were carved by the Pacific Ocean into cliffs that bulged out into the sea. They were formed over a million years ago when silt, clay, and diatoms were solidified into a mixture of stone that originally formed three arches on the beach. However, of the three arches, only one remains to this day as the other two collapsed during two different storms.

Natural Bridges is known as a “hotspot” for monarch butterfly migrations as it is home to over 150,000 monarch butterflies between October and February. A eucalyptus grove provides habitat for these monarchs and they migrate up to 2,000 miles to the park in order to escape cold weather. The

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