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Feed me. Feed me. Slippery fish. Travel up the food chain to become food for a FISH. Slippery fish. Slippery fish. Plankton looks delicious.Fish food.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!
Spread through the FOOD WEB.
Fish get their energy by consuming other organisms. Phytoplankton are food for zooplankton—tiny "wandering animals" eat tiny "wandering plants." In turn, they are consumed by bigger animals, which get eaten by bigger fish, and so on. Essential carbon travels up the food chain. organic carbon travels up the food chain serving both as nutrients providing metabolic energy, and as building blocks for animal bodies, biomass. Fish bodies are built as they grow from materials first made by plants.In this way, carbon travels up the food chain from plant matter into the tissues of fish. O
Living organisms ingest other organisms as sources of energy in the food chain.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Eating, Metabolism, Ocean_biomass, Food_web
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There is no escape—if you’re in the ocean and have mass— Chill out. Relax. You've paid your dues. Your work is done. 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 by microbes for energy. The remains 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. [DECOMPOSERS]
C6H12O6 => 2C2H5OH + 2C02
Sugar => Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide
Complex organic molecules are broken down to simpler forms in the process of decomposition.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Decomposition, Sedimentation
You are Carbon in a Marine Plant
We may be microscopic, but we pack a powerful punch. Can you believe we account for h Half of the photosynthesis on earth? Anchor of the aquatic food chain? Not a problem. We do it as we drift about.
Thousands of different species of plankton trap enough energy from the sun to build a great blue whale. [Many different microorganisms.... 5,000 species known]Algae, kelp, and phytoplankton are the primary producers of the water-ways. They make the food that every other marine animal ultimately consumes.
Too small to be seen by the naked human eye, phytoplankton—meaning, "wandering plants"—live at the sunlit surface of almost all bodies of water. Like plants on land, phytoplankton are self-feeding—"autotrophs," that create their own food. Through photosynthesis, these primary producers are key starting points of the aquatic food chain, synthesizing organic compounds from carbon dioxide suspended in dissolved into the ocean.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Phytoplankton, Autotroph
