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you have small fish feeding on microorganisms in the surf zone, and you see a school of bluefish offshore feeding on smaller fish, and several brown pelicans are diving and feeding on the bluefish. along the shore are other birds feeding on fish, fiddler crabs, and worms in the sand. Ghost crabs and fiddler crabs are moving in and out of their burrows feeding on decaying grass and fungi near the high tide zone.

What level would the brown pelican fit into?

A. First feeding level
B. Second feeding level
C. Third feeding level
D. Higher feeding level

Where would the ghost and fiddler crabs fall into?
A. Primary consumers
B. Secondary Consumers
C. Tertiary Consumers
D. None of the above

I recently moved to Texas from Oregon, and although I like Texas a lot i am completely appalled and disgusted by the amount of garbage that is spread all over ( and I mean everywhere!) the beach. Everybody here just seems to throw their garbage all over the beach. There isnt a clean area of beach to stretch out and relax on. I have seen dirty diapers, styrafoam cups, milkjugs, tall white buckets, wrappers, alcohol containers, fishing lures, plastic wrap from cigarette packs and things like that. It’s disgusting and everywhere. I am used to going to the beach and seeing very little garbage. It looks clean and it’s beautiful when you visit. Oregons beaches were very well taken care of and rarely did I see garbage. How can I bring this to attention and who do I need to start with at trying to make people realize what they are doing by littering. I’d like to really get some support and hopefully someone in charge of changing things like this in the State to start making changes!
I live by surfside beach and it’s about 4 miles of beach. I just want people to be aware of the garbage problem. There are gabage cans all along the grass before you actually get to the sand close enough for ppl to use but they don’t. they just throw the garbage whereever they are. I want to clean it up and make it beautiful and peaceful. I would like to know information on who to cantact, webite links maybe to the effects of garbage and beach wildlife and just the negative effects for the environment and wildlife, and anything to help make my case stronger and more effective in getting the desired results. Please help and the more info you can give me the better. I am not an environmentalist but I do think we need to take care of what God has given us. Any help is appriciated. Thank You!

Ethanol is currently produced by fermentation of corn. There are other ways such as the fermentation of whole plants, like "switchgrass", a native North American grass. How ecology friendly is ethanol — its use, it production by various methods?