Producers & Consumers
This tiny plantlike producer lives in the sunlight zone and uses sunlight to grow
What is phytoplankton?
The sunlight zone is the ______most part of the ocean.
What is the uppermost?
The sunlight zone spans about how many meters under the surface?
What is 200 meters?
Because the sunlight zone is close to the sun, the water stays this.
What is warm?
In the text, who are the first step (base) of the sunlight zone food web?
What are phytoplankton?
These small animals eat phytoplankton.
What is zooplankton?
Living organisms ______ in all parts of the sunlight zone.
What is thrive?
The passage says the sunlight zone is about two of these (sports field) deep.
What are football fields?
More sunlight causes more of this tiny producer to thrive.
What is phytoplankton?
After phytoplankton, which group eats them next in the text?
What are zooplankton?
Name a group that eats zooplankton in the food chain.
What are larger consumers? / What are larger animals?
The sunlight keeps the water in this zone this way.
What is warm?
Convert 200 meters into feet as given in the text.
What is 660 feet?
If phytoplankton increase, this also increases for consumers.
What is a more bountiful feast / What is more food?
The passage says consumers feed these. Fill in the chain: phytoplankton → zooplankton → _____.
What are larger consumers?
The organisms that make their own food from sunlight are called this.
What are producers?
The amount of this affects how many phytoplankton can grow.
What is sunlight?
This is another way the text describes the sun’s location relative to us when we are in the sunlight zone.
What is “the sun is just above us in the sky”
The passage says the number of phytoplankton affects both the number and this of consumers.
What is variety?
The passage uses the phrase “food web.” Name two roles found in a food web from the passage.
What are producers and consumers?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals
What are decomposers?
Two factors mentioned that can make water temperature change are the seasons and this.
What is the wind?
The sunlight zone is described by depth and by its relation to the sun; name both numeric and positional descriptions.
What are “about 200 meters (660 feet) deep” and “the sun is just above us in the sky”
Explain in one short sentence how sunlight influences the food web in the sunlight zone (use words from the text).
What is “The more sun, the more phytoplankton thrive here, and the more bountiful the feast for consumers.”
Using exactly the wording from the last sentence, finish this cause-effect phrase: “That is to say: the more sun, the more ______ thrive here, and the more ______ the feast for consumers.”
What are “phytoplankton” and “bountiful”?