Question

Choose the correct sequence
A. Phytoplankton – zooplankton – Crustacean - Fish
B. Crustacean – Fish – Zooplankton - Phytoplankton
C. Zooplankton – Phytoplankton – Crustacean - Fish
D. Fish – Crustacean – Zooplankton - Phytoplankton

Answer 1

Hint: Predators prey more aggressively on other species. Many forms of predators feed on different kinds of food.

Complete Answer:
- In an ecological culture, food chains explain who eats who. , Food networks, made up of intertwined food chains, help us understand how ecosystem changes, eliminating a top predator or introducing nutrients – impact several different species, both directly and indirectly.
- Phytoplankton and algae form the basis for marine food chains. Main users such as zooplankton, crustaceans and small fish eat them. Fish, small sharks, corals, and baleen whales in particular feed primary consumers.
- Huge sharks, big billfish seals, toothed whales, and dolphins are among the largest ocean predators. From every part of this food system people eat aquatic organisms.

Now, let us find the solution from the option.
- A food chain is a collection of plants / animals that are interrelated in the way where the other consumes the organism as food.
- Phytoplankton are primary producers of the marine food chain, producing their own food. These are consumed by zooplankton. They are all herbivores.
- Crustacean consumes these more. Those are carnivores. Big fish consume these then.

Thus, the correct option is (A) Phytoplankton – Zooplankton – Crustacean – Fish.

Note: Many consumers are opportunistic feeders which means they can eat anywhere on the food web. They even consume each other sometimes.