Team members

 

Names / Roles:

• Leader      Mark Steven 
• Wiki Writer      Sok Tonh Oudom
• Researcher      Mohd Hirman
• Researcher      Mark Steven
• Researcher      Elron Wee 

 

Overview

 

• The location of the Movile Cave is at Romania. In Romania, it is a few kilometers from the Black sea coast 
• The Movile cave is very small and fragile and it needs our protection, it is one of the richest cave ecosystems regarding the number of species. It is commonly known as the ''cave forgotten by time''
• When the Earths climate changed 5.5 million years ago, the area went from tropical to temperate so the only animals that survived are the ones that are able to live in warm caves underground. Such animals are the Arachnids, Crustaceas, Myriapodias and Insectas. 

 

 

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Physical Factors

 

• The Movile cave is very dark because it is underground and recieves very little sunlight. 
• The Movile cave is very hot because only 7-10% of the air inside is oxygen and the carbon dioxide in the air is about 2-3.5%. 
• The Movile cave is just under the Dead Sea so the water is salty. 
• Water in the Movile cave is sea water 
• The cave is very different from the outer atmosphere. The also contains methane and ammonia. 
• The pH level of the water is 8. 
• There are minerals like Calcite and Aragonite. 

 

 

 

 

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Classification of Living Organisms

 

1. Producers-Algae
2. Primary Consumers- Mollusks,Small Ostracod
3. Secondary Consumers-  Arheboreoiulus,Leach Haemopis Caeca,Ostrecode
4.  Tertiary Consumers- Spider Agraecina cristiani    
5. Decomposers- Bacteria

Algae- The food producers in the Movile Cave

 

 Taken from:http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/02/algae-apium.jpg

 

 

Mollusks- resistant to hydrogen sulfide

 

 

Taken from: http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-new/ehow/images/a08/71/97/activities-mollusks-preschool-800x800.jpg

 

Small Ostrecod- Are a class of crustacea, sometimes known as seed shrimp

 

 

Taken from: http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4035/4324247473_de04f1fcc7.jpg

 

Arheboreoiulus- Crawls in the dark to search for food

 

 

Taken from:http://www.gesslab.org/files/MasterImages/Fauna_Mvle_prsntation_Arheboreoiulus_sp_cropped.jpg

 

 Leach Haemopis Caeca- A worm that is highly resistant to hydrogen sulfide

 

 

Taken From:http://www.gesslab.org/files/MasterImages/Haemopis_caeca_cropped.jpg

 

Ostrecode- A type of small shrimp

 

 

Taken From: http://www.gesslab.org/Movile-Cave.html

 

Spider Agraecina Cristiana- Does not make a web and catches small insects and shrimps by continuously patrolling the lower galleries of the

cave where its prey is more abundant 

 

 

Taken From: http://www.gesslab.org/Movile-Cave.html

 

Water Scorpion Nepa Anophthalma- It preys on shrimps and insects, it lives mostly in water

 

 

 

Taken From: http://www.gesslab.org/Movile-Cave.html

 

Food Web:

 

 

 

 

Made with Photoshop 

 

 

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Interrelationship in Ecosystem

 

1. Predator-prey relationship- The Ostrecode and the Agraecina Cristiana
2. Parasitism-Predator and prey

     3.Mutualism- The Mollusk eats the algae. When the mollusk urinates, it helps the algae to grow

 

 

 

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Useful Links

Plagarism is a strongly discouraged.

 

Include the links of all websites you obtained information from to complete your ecology wiki. 

For example:

Wild World @ nationalgeographic.com ( http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html ) 

• Wikipedia-Movile Cave  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave
• Movile-Cave   http://www.gesslab.org/Movile-Cave.html
• Google Images   https://www.google.com.sg/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

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