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Why is the water red?
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microscopic organisms that float.
Plankton microscopic organisms that float. phytoplankton zooplankton
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* phytoplankton–microscopic plants and bacteria
Two major groups * phytoplankton–microscopic plants and bacteria *zooplankton–microscopic animals
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Phytoplankton primary producers (also called autotrophs).
use chlorophyll to convert energy (from sunlight), inorganic chemicals (like nitrogen), and dissolved carbon dioxide gas into carbohydrates.
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Zooplankton
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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)
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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.
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Zooplanktons
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Phyotoplankton
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Acknowledgments http://www.chesapeakebay.net/info/plankton.cfm
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