A food web diagram illustrates ‘what eats what’ in a particular habitat. Pictures represent the organisms that make up the food web, and their feeding relationships are typically shown with arrows.

Mar 20, 2025 · Aquatic food webs show how plants and animals are connected through feeding relationships. Tiny plants and algae get eaten by small animals, which in turn are eaten by larger animals, like fish and birds. Humans consume plants …

In this module, students use the concepts of food webs and trophic levels to explore populations of marine organisms. Students research an organism in a marine habitat, then the whole class combines their data in a jigsaw activity to produce a food web diagram for that habitat.

Many species consume more than one type of species, creating a complex web of interactions known as a food web. In the visual below, you can see an example of a food web in the open ocean ecosystem and also one food chain that is a part of that food web.

In this lesson, students will learn about the marine food web and trophic levels and be able to place marine mammals in their proper place on the food web. They will explore the relationship between all the organisms on the web and hypothesize how impacts on one species in the web can impact the whole food web.

In the ocean, a food chain typically starts with energy from the sun powering phytoplankton, and follows a course such as: phytoplankton → herbivorous zooplankton → carnivorous zooplankton → filter feeder → predatory vertebrate.

At AnimalWised, we discover the food chain of the ocean, learning how energy and matter pass between species to create some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. We also learn about how specific aquatic food chains exist within the …