Marine food chain

marine sci.

1. Marine Food chain Name : Chavda Hitesh Harshadbhai M.Sc marine science part- 2 Data: 01/11/2017

2. What is food chain? A food chain is the path by which energy passes from one living thing to another

3. Producers Consumers Decomposers What’s in a Food Chain?

4. Food chain - linear sequence showing which organisms consume which other organisms, making a series of trophic levels Food web - more complex diagram showing feeding relationships among organisms, not restricted linearly

5. Food Chain Abstraction Phytoplankton Copepod Herring Food chain Food Web

6. Oceanic Food Webs Food webs in the oceans vary systematically in food chain efficiency, number of trophic levels, primary production

7. Productivity Primary productivity - productivity due to Photosynthesis . Secondary productivity - productivity due to consumers of primary producers.

8. Refernce : star.spsk12.net/science/k3/ FoodChains marinediscovery.arizona.edu/FOODWEBS www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/marine-food-chains-and-biodiversity/

9. Thank you