Rocky Fork Creek Food Pyramid

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Rocky Fork Creek Food Pyramid

• By Billy Brehm

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Creek Food Pyramid

• Producers also known as autotrophs, are at the
  bottom of the pyramid, after raw materials
• 1st level consumers, heterotrophs
• 2nd level consumers, heterotrophs
• Decomposers

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Producers in Rocky Fork
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Producers

• Algae
• Microscopic organisms

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1st Level Consumers

• Some of the consumers in the first level of the
  Rocky Fork Creek food pyramid would be
  herbivores, such as insects. Mayflies with their
  three long hair like tails are in this level.
• Water pennies and snails are also 1st level
  consumers in Rocky Fork Creek.

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1st Level Consumers
Mayfly
Water Penny
Lunged Snail
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2nd Level Consumers

• Fish were found as second level consumers in the
  classs water sample of Rocky Fork Creek.
• Two type of fish could be the Creek Chub and
  Green Sunfish. Both are found in the streams of
  the Rocky Fork watershed, and are pollutant
  tolerant.

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Decomposers

• Bacteria
• Crayfish