Is zooplankton plant or animal

Answer 1

"Zooplankton" refers to small aquatic animals.

The "zoo-" prefix refers to animals, as in zoology, and zoo (which is short for "zoological garden".

Zooplankton also are animal like because they consume their food.

Answer 2

Plankton are mostly tiny animal and plant organisms that float or weakly swim in the ocean's surface waters. Some plankton are single-celled while others are multi-celled---with some forming colonies. The word plankton comes from the Greek planktos, meaning drifting or wandering.

The organisms that make up plankton are very numerous and diverse; they can be grouped in many different ways. One division is based on the ability for photosynthesis; those plankton (mostly algae) that are capable of this process are called phytoplankton. Non-photosynthesizing (often termed animal) plankton are called zooplankton. The divisions of plankton are not made based on plant or animal characteristics---because some plankton can exhibit traits of both plants and animals.

Answer 3

Meroplankton refers to marine organisms that spend part of their larval life as plankton and when they mature, they become benthic or sessile animals. They are classified as meroplankton because they cannot control their own movement against the water current.

Answer 4

"Zooplankton" refers to small aquatic animals.

The "zoo-" prefix refers to animals, as in zoology, and zoo (which is short for "zoological garden".

Answer 5

Carnivorous zooplankton are a type of plankton that eat a viarity of herbivorous plankton and krill. This is the food chain the carnvivourous zooplankton belong in.

Answer 6

Zooplankton isn't a producer, though it can eat other small producers and consumers and can also be taken by decomposers.

Answer 7

Holoplankton refers to marine organisms that spend their entire life as plankton (water drifters) because they cannot control their own movement against the water current.

Answer 8

• Zooplankton eat other plankton.