A food chain shows how each living thing gets energy from food and passes that along to other specie. A food web includes several different food chains and shows how plants and animals are interconnected. The marine food chain starts with phytoplankton, mainly algae. Phytoplankton is consumed by floating animals called zooplankton; they vary in size so the smaller zooplankton are eaten by larger zooplankton. Zooplankton are eaten by small fish; small fish are eaten by larger fish. What comes next in the food chain? Discover the rest of the marine food chain through these web sites.
A Delicate Balance: Protecting Northwest's Glass Sponge ReefsA Delicate Balance: Protecting Northwest's Glass Sponge Reefs,
October 22, 2015,
By Nicola Jones,
Environment 360,
Rare and extensive reefs of glass sponges are found only one place on earth - a
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_delicate_balance_pr...
Building an Automated Underwater MicroscopeBuilding an Automated Underwater Microscope
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
A very interesting conversation with Heidi Sosik, a biologist who studies marine phytoplankton - 'the community of mi
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do...
Introduction to Bacillariophyta (The Diatoms)
Introduction to Bacillariophyta (The Diatoms)
University of California
Museum of Paleontology
The Bacillariophyta are the diatoms. With their exquisitely beautiful silica shells, or frustules s
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chromista/bacillariop...
Marine Food Webs
Marine Food Webs
The Gould League
See if you can put the specie into the correct slot according to producers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and top-level carnivores; then click up by the "H
http://www.gould.org.au/foodwebs/marine.htm
Ocean Food ChainOcean Food Chain
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
The picture below shows part of an ocean and some of the organisms (plants and animals) that live ar
http://timss.bc.edu/timss2003i/psi_g4_s_ocean.html
Plankton form jellyfish-like colony of synchronized swimmers
Plankton form jellyfish-like colony of synchronized swimmers,
Sept. 2, 2015,
By Brooks Hays,
UPI.com.
Synchronized swimming isn't limited to the Summer Games. As a new study reveals, whole col
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/09/02/Plankto...
Sharks: Cruise Missiles of the Deep
Sharks: Cruise Missiles of the Deep
Article by Avi Abrams and Lauren Axelrod
Dark Roasted Blend
Awesome photographs, with explanations.
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/sharks-cru...
The Global Impact of Saving the Tiny KrillThe Global Impact of Saving the Tiny Krill,
Written by TheJohn,
Scribol.com,
"The primary food source for hundreds of marine and avian species, there is arguably no other creature more crucial to
http://scribol.com/environment/the-global-impact-o...
Whale Poo: The Ocean's Miracle Grow
Whale Poo: The Ocean's Miracle Grow
By Wynne Parry
13 October 2010
Live Science
"Whales fertilize the ocean with their feces, which contain nutrients they carry from deep waters up to the surf
http://www.livescience.com/8788-whale-poo-ocean-mi...
What are phytoplankton?
What are phytoplankton?
by David Herring
NASA Earth Observatory
Phytoplankton are microscopic plant-like organisms that live in the ocean. There are many species of phytoplankton, each of which
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Phytopla...
Why Tiny Krill Are a Major Link in the Marine Food ChainWhy Tiny Krill Are a Major Link in the Marine Food Chain,
Written by MikeDeHaan,
Scribol.com,
"Shrimp-like krill form a major link in the marine food chain, by eating algae and plankton but becom
http://scribol.com/environment/why-tiny-krill-are-...
Will climate change lead to food chain collapse in the ocean?
Will climate change lead to food chain collapse in the ocean?,
October 12, 2015,
By Brooks Hays,
UPI.com,
ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A domino effect of collapsing marine food chains
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/10/12/Will-cl...