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Where do organisms that live near hydrothermal vents get energy?
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∙ 13y ago
Hydrothermal vents are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart, ocean basins, and hotspots. Vent organisms depend on chemosynthetic bacteria for food. The water from the hydrothermal vent is rich in dissolved minerals and supports a large population of chemoautotrophic bacteria.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 13y agothey get their energy from the heat and sulfur coming from the vent
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What Organisms that live around hydrothermal vents are supported by what?
chemoautotrophssulfur
How is energy transsferred in a thermal vent community?
Some archaebacteria, such as thermophiles, live by hydrothermal vents. They are chemoautotrophs, which means that they produce their own food using energy from the chemicals in the vents instead of using energy from the sun. The energy starts in the vent, then goes to the archaebacteria, then to the organisms that eat those archaebacteria, and so on.
What organismes live in hydrothermal vents?
fish
What kingdoms live in hydrothermal vents?
sharks and squid
What do organisims living near hydrothermal vents get their energy from?
Special bacteria (chemosynthetic bacteria) live there which use the sulfur from the hydrothermal vents to make their own food. Other organisms, such as copepods (and other zooplankton), eat this bacteria. Other organisms, such as snails, shrimp, crabs, tube worms, and fish eat the copepods. Therefore, the number of organisms living in these vent systems are 10,000 times greater than areas in the ocean that do not have hydrothermal vents. These life forms would not be possible without the chemosynthetic bacteria, since sulfur is toxic to almost all other forms of life.
How do the many organisms live iv complete darkness at the bottom of the ocean near hydrothermal vents and some don't have mouths So how do their cells get food that they need?
as to the darkness, most, if not all of the organisms there are blind or have a bioluminescent light. As to the organisms that don't have mouths, they most likely get their energy from chemosynthetic bacteria that live inside or on their body.
What is unique about the producers that live in hydrothermal vents?
Bacteria use chemosynthesis. They take the chemicals in the water shooting out of the vents.
Which domain would one classify bacteria that live in hydrothermal vents?
arechea
What is the primary source of energy for organisms that live near deep-sea vents?
hydrogen sulfide
What is a bythograeid?
A bythograeid is a member of the Bythograeidae, a small family of crabs which live around hydrothermal vents.
What organisms on earth do not get original energy from the sun?
Some "extremophiles" obtain their energy from chemicals. These are bacteria that live round thermal vents (in the sea and volcanoes), and that live in solid rock.
How can the yeti lobster survive in the hydrothermal vents?
Scientists are not quite sure, but it may be due to the bacteria they grow on the "hairs" their pincer arms are covered in. The bacteria that live there are able to convert the toxic chemicals spewed out by hydrothermal vents in a process called chemosynthesis.
