Why is the water red Plankton microscopic organisms

Why is the water red?

Plankton microscopic organisms that float. phytoplankton zooplankton

Two major groups * phytoplankton–microscopic plants and bacteria *zooplankton–microscopic animals

Phytoplankton • primary producers (also called autotrophs). • use chlorophyll to convert energy (from sunlight), inorganic chemicals (like nitrogen), and dissolved carbon dioxide gas into carbohydrates.

Zooplankton

Zooplankton • microscopic animals that eat other plankton. • Some are larval or very immature stages of larger animals; mollusks (like snails and squid), crustaceans (like crabs and lobsters), fish, jellyfish, sea cucumbers, and seastars (these are called meroplankton). • Other zooplankton are single-celled animals, like foraminifera and radiolarians. • Other zooplankton are tiny crustaceans, like daphnia, krill and copepods, this group makes up about 70 percent of all plankton)

Zooplankton 3 groups • Microzooplankton–(protozoans and rotifers) less than 200 microcrons in size. • Mesozooplankton–(copepods and invertebrate larvae) between 200 microns and 2 millimeters in size. • Macrozooplankton–(amphipods, shrimp, fish larvae and jelly fish) greater than 2 millimeters in size.

Zooplanktons

Phyotoplankton

Acknowledgments • http: //www. chesapeakebay. net/info/plan kton. cfm • http: //biology. rwc. uc. edu/Home. Page/B WS/planktonkey/phytozoo. html • www. oceanoasis. org/ teachersguide/activity 10. html