Zooplankton

Velellas, a genus of cnidarians, are more on the odd looking side. These common jellyfish- like creatures are found on the North American West Coast. Though they don’t have a traditional “medusa” or “polyp” looking form, their body shapes are more of a flat, disk- like colony of specialized personal polyps and are about 6- 7cm in diameter.. They generally live in warm to warm- temperate waters and oceans and live off shore. Due to them mostly floating above water, they have a vibrant blue color…

the jellyfish is the round shaped figure above their tentacles. They invertebrates because they don’t have a back bone. Spotted jellyfish harvest some of their food from their algae. A crop of algae in its tissue produces food for it to harvest. Zooplanktons are another thing they eat. Small mouth openings on its oral arms capture plankton. Spotted jellyfish are amazing creatures, but octopi are my most…

to the largest, the whale shark. The dwarf, measuring on average at 5 inches in length, eats krill. It attracts prey with tactics similar to angler fish, emitting light from its body to lure them towards it. The whale shark also eats krill and zooplankton, even though it is by far the largest shark known to us. It measures an average of 40 feet in length. It filter feeds, similar to whales that they are named…

cannot survive with temperature change. If there is a decreased amount of phytoplankton, the food chain is in trouble since many animals depend on this food source. This will cause a domino effect. For example, phytoplankton are eaten by zooplankton. The zooplankton are then eaten by fishes. The squids eat the fishes. Squids are finally eaten by the sperm whales (Stanley, 94). If the supply of phytoplankton are low, these organisms and many others will also be affected. According to the book,…

INTRODUCTION On the 9th our Biology class went on a trip to Sirens Rock Wellington to investigate the organisms living at the rocky shore and their relationships with each other our task was to display information on the relationships between two species we discovered at the Rocky Shore we then use this information to form a report and explain the species and their relationship with one another, but before this we need to understand the definition of zonation; zonation is the distribution of…

squid, the Vampire Squid is a very strange squid species that makes its travel far below the waters nearly a half-mile down near the bottom of the ocean. Even though by its name you would think it sucks blood, the vampire squid actually just eats zooplankton, and is actually part of the animals in the Cephalopoda Class (animaldiversity.org/accounts/Cephalopoda), which means it has a lot in common with some of the oldest fossils from sea creatures that lived in the past. Strange Squid Species…

hermaphrodites, with cross-fertilization between neighbors. Some species of barnacles have dwarf males, which are either parasitic on female or hermaphroditic individuals. The parents brood the larvae until they release them to swim as members of zooplankton in the ocean. The fertilized egg develops into a free-swimming larva, called a nauplius larva. of the basic crustacean type, with paired antennae. In the barnacle’s larval stage, it looks like tiny shrimp. The next stage is the Cyprid stage.…

teach people what conditions our water is in, but also what they can do about it. we are asking them to take small action that can take a big effect of the health and condition of the water not only in the puget sound, but all around the world. things like when you go camping; pack in, pack out. the Puget Sound there is too much Plastic pollution . This Plastic pollution is a threat to whales, seals, salmon and all of Puget Sound’s wildlife and sea life . There is…

Discussion Microscope is an optical instrument that have magnifying lens which is used for inspecting objects that is too small to be seen or to be seen distinctly and in details by the unaided eye. Microscope also is an optical instrument that keep observe specimen in resolution and magnitude way. However, there are some microbes such as viruses that cannot be observe by certain microscope and this microbes has to be observe using electronic microscope which has more magnification power. In…

Charles Moore discovered the patch in 1997. The patch is basically invisible as most of the debris is under the surface. To know that it was there you would have to drag a net through it. The plastic in the North Pacific Gyre outweighs surface zooplankton, the most abundant and prolific organisms on the planet, by six-to-one. After a lot of research Sun decided that she wanted to this garbage patch herself. She went about figuring out…