The+Procedures

Did you ever wonder what living organisms are in creeks and lakes? Well, on our trip to Cloe we found out plenty of information that some of us would rather not know. We set up downstream so the organisms we easier to collect. What we did was set up a net and kicked rocks to make the organisms that were attached to them fall off. Then we took the net out and made sure we did not have any rocks but debris was not a problem. We then got tweezers and paint brushes to look through the mud and debris to find the macroinvertebrates. Between stoneflies, crayfish and many more organisms it was amazing how many lived in the water that we did not know about. Next, we sorted the organisms into different containers so that the same ones were sorted together. We calculated how many organisms were in each group and the abundance of them. We found that the site was fair of the abundance of the macroinvertebrates. This was how we did the procedure for the macroinvertebrates and how many were there that we did not know about.