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What are producers of the ocean?
seaweed and photosynthetic plankton
Where does 80 percent of Earth's photosynthetic activity happen?
Photosynthesis takes place wherever there plants, algae, or photosynthetic bacteria and sunlight. More than 50% of the total planetary photosynthesis is believed to take place in the oceans where there are massive numbers of photosynthetic plankton, algae and bacteria. Although land based plants are important, they do not do as much photosynthesis as the ocean-based organisms.
Are the population of small photosynthetic organisms found near the surface of the ocean?
Yes, the photosynthetic organisms are regulated near the surface according to surchams theory, and the microorganisms innterrelated neighbours are found near the focus of the ocean on the oceanic boundary.
Is krill a type of fish?
This is kind of tricky. Krill are actually small shrimp, but capable of purposeful swimming. Plankton, by definition, are all the little things in the water, some plants, some animals, that are not capable of purposeful swimming. That is, even if they swim a little, it is not enough to move them significantly from place to place relative to ocean currents. Larval krill would be part of the planktonic community, as would the larvae of many marine creatures. But adult krill are not plankton. Size comparison: Krill can grow to over 20cm in length and feed primarily on the mostly microscopic plankton.
Are Plants the only photosynthetic organisms?
No, there are some photosynthetic protists and some photosynthetic bacteria.
When populations of photosynthetic plankton explode the event is referred to as an?
Plankton bloom.
What are producers of the ocean?
seaweed and photosynthetic plankton
Small photosynthetic organisms living near the ocean surface?
plytoplankton
What organisms begin all photosynthetic food chains?
Plankton and phytoplankton.
Are all plankton photosynthetic?
Plankton is a character from the show Spongebob Squarepants. He is a maniacal little plankton that plots to steal the Crabby Patty Recipe from the Krusty Krab.
Is dinoflagellantes photosynthetic?
Most dinoflagellates are marine plankton though they are also abundant in fresh water habitats. These organisms are known as photosynthetic.
Which living organisms are photosynthetic?
there are some kinds of photosynthetic living organisms such as Plankton, certain sea slugs such as the Elysia Chlorotica, and Pea Aphids. --RKH
Which 2 nutrients limit the growth of photosynthetic plankton in marine environments?
nitrogen and phospherous
What plankton have two flagella and cause red tide?
Phytoplankton is the type of plankton that is usually responsible for the toxic phenomenon known as red tide. The reason this happens is due to photosynthetic pigments in the algae.
What does eat phytoplankton?
phytoplankton eats all other kinds of plankton
Is Dino-flagellates heterotroph and photosynthetic?
Both Dino-flagellates cover a class of microbes that can be either photosynthetic or heterotrophic. About half are considered photosynthetic plankton (mostly in marine waters but some are also found in fresh water), they are eukaryotic algae (protozoa). Predator dino-flagellates do not have pigments like photosynthetic ones. There are also a few parasitic forms.
Is it true that sharks help the filtration of carbon-dioxide in the oceans by the way of the food chain IE Sharks eat an organism and that being feeds on the organisms that filter carbon-dioxide?
nop RT: Actually, I found out that it IS true. I believe it is something along the lines of there being photosynthetic plankton present in the oceans. Similar to trees, these plankton filter carbon-dioxide out of the oceans with the help of sunlight. Fish, other plankton and other organisms eat these plankton. Sharks help control the fish population, allowing the photosynthetic plankton to sustain a healthy population, or something to that affect. I am still researching...
