Plankton and ocean floor

What is Phytoplankton

• A microscopic thing that lives in watery places.
• a dumb plant
• A food source for all animals
• something that you eat

True or false: Phytoplankton is the first link in the food chain.

• true
• false
• i don't know
• wasn't listening

T1 - The plankton that are microscopic and plant like are called 

• zooplankton 
• phytoplankton 
• minnows

T1 - The plankton that are animal-like are called

• bacteria 
• phytoplankton 
• zooplankton 

T1 - Which process would bacteria living near a heat vent on the ocean floor use to build carbon-based molecules, such as sugars? 

• photosynthesis 
• cellular respiration
  
• fermentation
  
• chemosynthesis 

T2 - Benthos are organisms that live

• On the surface of the water
• throughout the water column
• ocean floor
• shallow water

T2 - Which of the following organisms is an example of nekton?

• Lobster
• Dolphin
• Clam
• Seastar

T2 - The part of the ocean that extends from the low-tide line to the edge of the continental shelf is the 

• Neritic Zone
• Open Ocean Zone
• Intertidal Zone
• Deep Zone

T2 - Free-swimming animals that can move throughout the water column are called

• algae.
• nekton.
• benthos.
• plankton.

T2 - This is the zone between high-tide and low-tide (literally means between tides)

• Twilight Zone
• Neritic Zone
• Open-ocean Zone
• Intertidal Zone