a shark’s tooth that has been engraved with a picture
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Baleen is a comb-like structure in a whale’s mouth used for filtering food.
The Arctic Ocean Ecosystem
dead zooplankton
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Baleen is a comb-like structure in a whale’s mouth used for filtering food.
Baleen is:
a type of seafloor sediment
a comb-like structure in a whale’s mouth for filtering food
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Jellyfish have tentacles that carry stinging cells that they use to catch and eat smaller ocean animals, including copepods, krill, and larval fish.
filtering their prey out of the seawater
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wrapping their tentacles around their prey and suffocating them
stinging them
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engulfing their pray in their umbrella-shaped bodies
Jellyfish catch food by:
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Jellyfish have tentacles that carry stinging cells that they use to catch and eat smaller ocean animals, including copepods, krill, and larval fish.
jellyfish
birds
Polar bears primarily feed on:
ice algae
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Polar bears primarily feed on ringed seals, but when seal meat is scarce, they survive on fish, seabirds, and scraps.
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Polar bears primarily feed on ringed seals, but when seal meat is scarce, they survive on fish, seabirds, and scraps.
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seals
rolling along the seafloor
moving their spines
forcing water into tube feet
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Sea urchins move across the seafloor by forcing water into hundreds of tube feet, but they don’t move very quickly.
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Sea urchins move across the seafloor by forcing water into hundreds of tube feet, but they don’t move very quickly.
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they don’t move
Sea urchins move by:
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Detritus is
dead organisms and fecal pellets that sink to the seafloor
flocks of migrant birds
chunks of ice that break off glaciers
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Detritus includes dead ice algae, phytoplankton and zooplankton, as well as fecal pellets.
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Detritus includes dead ice algae, phytoplankton and zooplankton, as well as fecal pellets.
large swarms of copepods
Food at the base of the Arctic Ocean food chain is provided by:
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seaweed
parasites
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At the center of the Arctic food web are phytoplankton
and algae that produce organic material using energy from the sun.
grass
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At the center of the Arctic food web are phytoplankton
and algae that produce organic material using energy from the sun.
ice algae and phytoplankton