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Not exactly. This is where misuse of terminology can get in the way of accurate information.
"Plankton" are a large group of water organisms that can be organized into four basic groups:
- Phytoplankton
- Zooplankton
- Bacterioplankton
- Mycoplankton
Zooplankton eat other plankton.
Plankton provide an important food source for larger organisms.
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What are decomposers of the sea?
Planktons and Zooplanktons
Do planktons in the ocean perform photosynthesis?
Yes.Only phytoplanktons are photosynthetic. Zooplanktons are animal like
What is a zooplankton?
Zooplanktons belong the the nanoplanktonic category of planktons that help control the population of bacteria in water.
Do zooplanktons eat phytoplankton?
Yes
What is planketon?
Planktons consists of tiny living sea creatures and plants which they emerged from their larve or egg stages and the living plant algae. They are also marine thrifts and are passively floating or weakly swimming usually minute animal and plant life in the ocean. In addition, there are two terms of planktons, zooplanktons and phytoplanktons. Zooplanktons are very tiny sea creatures and can be larger size as krill, (shrimplike creatures) swims in the water along with phytoplanktons which is thousands of species of tiny plants and algae that floats in the ocean. Zooplanktons eats phytoplanktons. The larger sea creatures such as fish or whales eats zooplanktons and other names called the "krills" ( thousands of tiny shrimps) and tiny jellyfishes. Many larger animals eat just phytoplankton as well. Whale sharks eat nothing but phytoplankton.
What does a cockle eat?
Planktons
What does a geoduck eat?
Planktons.
What do cokles eat?
planktons
What does cockles eat'?
Planktons
What food chain contains 10 links?
By the way, there's a 10-linked ocean food chain which is the Ocean Food Chain:Sun> Seaweed>Zooplankton>Plankton>Krill>Shrimp>Small Fish>Medium Fish>Big Fish>Shark>WhaleFood Chain Explanation: The zooplanktons eat the seaweeds, the planktons eat the zooplanktons, the krill eat the planktons, the shrimps eat the krill, the small fishes eat the shrimps, the medium fishes eat the small fishes, the big fishes eat the medium fishes, the sharks eat the big fishes and the whales eat the sharks.Food Chain Trophic Precedence:Seaweed-ProducerZooplankton-Primary ConsumerPlankton-Secondary ConsumerKrill-Tertiary ConsumerShrimp-Quaternary ConsumerSmall Fish-Quinary ConsumerMedium Fish-Senary ConsumerBig Fish-Septenary ConsumerShark-Octonary Consumer (Apex Prey)Whale-Novenary Consumer (Apex Predator)
What does a zooplanktons eat?
A zoo plankton eats algae.
Do planktons eat shrimp?
Yes
