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The Marine Food Web

Food Web Chart

  • Mammals: Omnivores + Consumers
  • Bigger Fish: Omnivores + Consumers
  • Small Fish: Omnivores + Consumers
  • Zooplankton: Omnivores/Herbavores + Consumers
  • Phytoplankton: Producers

The phytoplankton produce their own food through a mix of sunlight, absorbing nutrients around them, and taking in oxygen and/or carbon dioxide. These phytoplankton serve as the food for the zooplankton, slightly more evolved forms of plankton. These zooplankton get eaten by small fish, which get eaten by larger fish, which get eaten by mammals. However, one species in particular - the whale - also feeds on plankton through comb-like teeth in it's mouth (to filter out the plankton with the water that it catches). So it is safe to say that an organism is not limited to the class under it.

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