🕸️ Ocean Food Webs

What you’ll learn

1. From Chains to WebsUnderstand that a food web is many food chains linked together, and identify producers and consumers.A food web is many food chains joined together, showing how the plants and animals in a habitat depend on one another for food. Producers like sea plants make their own food from sunlight, while consumers eat other living things. Arrows point from each food to its eater, tracing the flow of energy.
2. Who Eats WhomTrace energy through an ocean food web from plankton upward, and sort living things into producers and consumers.Most ocean food webs begin with phytoplankton, the producers, which zooplankton and then fish eat in turn. Energy always flows from food to eater, following the arrows up from producers to consumers. Every living thing in the web is either a producer, which makes its own food, or a consumer, which eats other living things.
3. A Web in BalanceLearn that removing one animal affects many others, and that recyclers keep nutrients cycling.Because a food web connects everything, removing one animal ripples out and affects many others, so the web keeps the ocean in balance. Recyclers such as sea-floor crabs, worms, and microbes break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the water to feed the producers again. Every role matters to a healthy ocean.

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Grounded in trusted sources

• NOAA
• National Geographic Kids
• Smithsonian Ocean
• Britannica Kids

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