Slippery fish. Slippery fish. Plankton looks delicious. Slippery fish. Curious about life in a more complex organism? Slide into this sub-aquatic food chain and see for yourself through the guts of a fish!

Enter the FOOD CHAIN.
Tiny "wandering animals"–zooplankton–eat phytoplankton and are in turn eaten by bigger animals, which are eaten by bigger fish, and so on. In this way, carbon travels up the food chain from plant matter into the tissues of fish.

Living organisms ingest other organisms as sources of energy in the food chain.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Eating wikipedia.org/Metabolism

~~There is no escape—if you’re in the ocean and have mass—~~ Chill out. Relax. You've paid your dues. Bed-down. you will sink to our level. Surrender yourself Settle into SEDIMENT!

Go through the process of DECOMPOSITION.
Dead ocean plants are broken up and may settle to the ocean floor, if they aren't consumed by deep sea animals along the way. If these bits of "marine snow" reach the bottom, immense pressures from the column of water above will crush them into sedimentary rock over long periods of time.

C₆H₁₂O₆ => 2C₂H₅OH + 2C0₂

Sugar => Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide

Complex organic molecules are broken down to simpler forms in the process of decomposition.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Decomposition wikipedia.org/Sedimentation

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You are Carbon in Phytoplankton

We may be microscopic, but we pack a powerful punch. ~~Can you believe we account for h~~ Half of the photosynthesis on earth? Anchor the aquatic foodchain? Not a problem.

Too small to be seen by the naked human eye, phytoplankton–meaning, "wandering plants"–live on the surface of almost all bodies of water. Through photosynthesis, these primary producers are key starting points of the aquatic food chain, creating organic compounds from carbon dioxide dissolved into the ocean.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Phytoplankton

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