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    Ecology - Food Webs and Chains

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    This document describes various food web relationships observed on rocky sea shores. It lists organisms that feed on each other at both high and low tides. These include (i) limpets grazing on algae, (ii) dog-whelks eating barnacles and mussels, and (iii) crabs consuming dead mussels. It then asks questions about which organisms are herbivores, primary consumers, autotrophs, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, detritivores, and heterotrophs based on the food web relationships.

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    Ecology - Food Webs and Chains

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    This document describes various food web relationships observed on rocky sea shores. It lists organisms that feed on each other at both high and low tides. These include (i) limpets grazing on algae, (ii) dog-whelks eating barnacles and mussels, and (iii) crabs consuming dead mussels. It then asks questions about which organisms are herbivores, primary consumers, autotrophs, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, detritivores, and heterotrophs based on the food web relationships.

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    This document describes various food web relationships observed on rocky sea shores. It lists organisms that feed on each other at both high and low tides. These include (i) limpets grazing on algae, (ii) dog-whelks eating barnacles and mussels, and (iii) crabs consuming dead mussels. It then asks questions about which organisms are herbivores, primary consumers, autotrophs, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, detritivores, and heterotrophs based on the food web relationships.

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    Ecology - Food Webs and Chains

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    This document describes various food web relationships observed on rocky sea shores. It lists organisms that feed on each other at both high and low tides. These include (i) limpets grazing on algae, (ii) dog-whelks eating barnacles and mussels, and (iii) crabs consuming dead mussels. It then asks questions about which organisms are herbivores, primary consumers, autotrophs, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, detritivores, and heterotrophs based on the food web relationships.

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    ECOLOGY FOOD WEBS AND CHAINS

    The following relationships may be observed on many rocky sea shores, some
    when the tide is in (high tide) and some when the tide is out (low tide):

    (i) Limpets (molluscs) grazing on diatoms (small algae), which are attached
    to rocks
    (ii) dog-whelks (snails) eating barnacles (crustaceans) and mussels
    (molluscs)
    (iii) crabs consuming dead mussels in cracks in the rocks
    (iv) barnacles feeding on zooplankton (animal plankton, often one celled
    organisms or tiny larvae of crustaceans, etc.)
    (v) mussels feeding on phytoplankton (plant plankton single celled algae,
    etc.)
    (vi) periwinkles (snails) feeding on diatoms attached to seaweeds
    (vii) sea-gulls (scavenging sea birds) feeding on dead crabs
    (viii) turnstones (a wading bird) feeding on dog-whelks, limpets and
    periwinkles, which they kill.
















    (i) Which of the organisms above are herbivores
    Snails and molluscs
    (ii) which are primary consumers
    Snail and Molluscs
    (iii) which are autotrophs
    Zooplankton and phytoplankton and algae
    (iv) which are secondary consumers
    Turnstones, barnacles and snails
    (v) which are tertiary consumers
    Sea gulls, snails, turnstones
    (vi) which are detritivores
    Crustaceans and sea gulls,
    (vii) Which are heterotrophs?
    All organisms except zooplankton, phytoplankton and algae.

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