Planktons vs Nektons vs Benthos

The largest group of animals and plants is:

• Benthos

• Nekton

• Plankton

They could be small and even microscopic:

• Nekton

• Plankton

• Benthos

They float at or near the ocean's surface when there is sunlight, drifting with the currents and tides:

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

They prefer to live: close to the shore, depths of one meter, or 200 meters in open ocean.

• Plankton

• Benthos

• Nekton

free-floating autotrophs and heterotrophs that live in freshwater and marine ecosystems

• carcass

• minnow

• fossil

• plankton

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The arrangement of organisms in the open ocean is determined by the

• increase in salt content from shallow to deep waters

• size of the benthic zone, where photosynthesis occurs

• amount of nutrients and sunlight that are available

• distribution of zooplankton

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

They are the main food for many larger organisms, like whales:

• Benthos

• Nekton

• Plankton

What are the three major groups of animals that lives in the sea?

• Plankton

• Benthos

• Benthics

• Nekton

• Neritics

They are the group of animals that can swim:

• Nekton

• Plankton

• Benthos

They can look for their own food and swim away from another animals:

• Benthos

• Nekton

• Plankton