Food Chain In The Ocean Diagram

Nov 16 2017 - Food chain on land start with plants and move up level by level.

Food chain in the ocean diagram. Phytoplankton herbivorous zooplankton carnivorous zooplankton filter feeder predatory vertebrate. Simple marine food web. Food chains have 3 levels.

More complex than a food chain. They are eaten by primary consumers like zooplankton small fish and crustaceans. A food web is a system of interconnected food chains.

A food chain is a top-to-bottom set of animals and plants. Level 1 Producers Level 2 Consumers Level 3 Decomposers Level 1 - Producers Green plants and some protists and monerans are producers. Producers make their own food using energy from the sun.

In this food chain the zooplankton are. Some common food chains are mentioned below. A simple food chain includes the plankton the crab and ray.

On your plate the shrimp and the fish are consumers. There are many food chains within a community. In the oceans food chains also work in much the same way.

The more steps in a chain means less food available at the top. Whales descendents of land animals that returned to the sea long ago have special adaptations to help them survive in the marine environment. Plants Grasshopper Frog Snake Hawk.