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Algae is a plant, and just like all plants algae makes sugar from sunlight. Rays of sunlight hit the plant and provide energy to water and carbon dioxide in a special compartment called a chloroplast. This energy turns water and carbon dioxide into sugar, which feeds the plant.
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How does algae get water and nutrients?
Algae gets its nutrients from sunlight and water from the water itself that it's in, because algae only grows in water.
What endangers algae?
No, all algae are not harmful to sea life. Some algae provide food to several marine animals.
What does 'are algae producers' mean?
It Means That It Makes It's Own Food And Gets Eaten By A Consumer Or It Decomposes.
Is that algae is producer or consumer?
it is a producer and a consumer because it eats lots of kinds of shrimp, and it also gets eaten by bigger fish.
How do algae get its food?
Algae use energy from the sun to produce their own food.
Does algae have a food source?
Algae are autotrophs, which means they derive their food from the sun.
What gets its energy by making its own food?
Autotrophs. Autotrophs are organisms that make their own food through the process of photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Some examples are plants and algae.
How do algae benefit lichens?
fungi protects the algal partner from stronge light and desiccation in this way it gets food by the coutesy of alga.
Do humans eat red algae?
Red algae is a source of food and food additives for humans.
What eats algae in the ocean?
The algae are eaten by smaller marine life such as cope pods, fish and tons more by slightly larger fish. The DHA gets passed along the food chain, all the way up to the biggest fish, but the original source is the algae.
Does algae eat plants?
Algae IS a plant. It gets energy from the sun, not other plants.
How does red algae affect humans?
Red algae are a source of food and food additives for humans.
