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Phytoplankton are responsible for producing more oxygen on Earth than all plant life. It is estimated that they make more than 60 percent of the planet's oxygen.

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How does plankton participate in the oxygen cycle?

Some plankton are photosynthetic, which means that they "make their own food" from the sunlight, much like plants. Most photosynthesis uses carbon dioxide and creates oxygen. The oxygen can be dissolved into the water.


What source of much of the oxygen in the atmosphere?

plant-like plankton in the ocean put out most of the oxygen in the atmoshere as a waste-product of photosynthesis.


What is the source of much of the oxygen the atmosphere?

plant-like plankton in the ocean put out most of the oxygen in the atmoshere as a waste-product of photosynthesis.


How do plankton participate in the oxygen cycle?

They produce oxygen during photosynthesis.


What role do plankton play in The oxygen?

they produce oxygen in the oceans


What do plankton produce?

Energy, oxygen.


What role do the plankton play in the oxygen cycle?

they produce oxygen in the oceans


What gives more oxygen to the atmosphere?

Plankton gives more oxygen to the atmosphere.


How much oxygen is produced by a tree?

a lot of oxygen! that's where most of it comes from!


Do the suns energy help the plankton underwater?

This is partially true. Technically, only plankton creates other plankton. But the whole process is driven by the sun, which provides the energy for most life on earth. The sun drives phytoplankton production, which in turn drives the production of pretty much all other plankton.


What food does a plankton eat?

well plankton eats the energy from the sun and that helps it provide oxygen and this is the process of photosynthesis. so really plankton only eats the suns heat and energy.


How much oxygen do plankton give off?

They produce oxygen during photosynthesis.