By Lukas Struppe
CLICK TO ENTER THE
DEEP
SEA
• The Marine Biome includes the
ecosystems of all the bodies of SALT
WATER NOT FRESH WATER.
• This biome includes the all the plants and
animals living in salt water.
In this report we will be focusing
specifically on the DEEP SEA BIOME!
• The Deep Sea includes three zones:
• Batheypelagic Zone (1000-4000m)
• Abyssopelagic Zone (4000-6000m)
• Hadopelagic Zone (6000-undiscovered)
• It ranges from about 1800 meters to 11,000 meters which is the deepest discovered
so far.
• Average temperature at 4000 meters is 2 degrees Celcius
Yum!
• This zone is closest to the surface from the Deep Sea Biome
• The Biomass decreases (amount of organisms/living things or
dead organisms)
• The prey feed on dead organisms that come from higher up
while the predators feed on the prey in their zone.
• Sunlight reaches only to 1000 meters so it is Pitch Black
• Some animals use bioluminescence to see and move around.
• No light is seen here
• Anything living beyond
this must be able to withstand
Fun Fact:
11,000 psi. (we would get crushed)
Abyssopelagic
Comes
• It is the largest
living zone known
to man
frommiles
the Greek
• ≈115,000,000 square
meaning
nohigh
bottom
• The biomass is
extremely
here because of all the dead
organisms that (but
float there
down is
here.
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• There is little or no oxygen down here.
• Predators usually use bioluminescence to catch other fish or
jellyfish
• Most prey are camouflaged or transparent/translucent.
• The jaws of the fish are large and low as to be able to comb
through the sand for food
• Most fish are blind
• Deepest known part of the ocean is the
Marianas trench (11,021 meters)
• Mostly made up of deep trenches since most
places are not deeper than 4,000 meters.
• 2% of the ocean is part of this zone
• Very few organisms live down here because
of the extreme temperature and pressure.
• Sadly there is no food web on these zones since so little is
known.
• There is A basic food web though
Click Arrow For a Food Web on
all three zones.
Biomass
• Dead Biomass
• Tube worms
YUM!!!
Bacteria
Crustaceans
• Bacteria
• Copepods
• Large Crustaceans
Small
organisms
• Small fish
• Cucumbers
Predators
• Large fish
• Squid, octopus e.t.c.
***Also Shows the flow of energy. It will be explained
more in the next slide
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Bacteria are produced by the heat the tubeworms put
out (you will learn more next slide)
Zooplankton and Phytoplankton feed on the bacteria
so energy transfers into them
Copepods and small crustaceans eat these and get eaten
by large Crustaceans
Large Crustaceans get eaten by small fish or the other
way around actually
These get eaten by the big predators like the Angler
Fish and the Vampire Squid
Primary Producers
Secondary Producers
1. Dead Biomass is the “Primary Producer even 1. Copopods, and large crustaceans, and fish, all
though it is dead because it comes from the dead eat the bacteria arund the vents and/or they eat
things that float down from the higher up zones.
the dead biomass
2. Tube Worms are so to say, primary producers
because they are hydrothermal vents. They
release black smoke in which is a chemical that
bacteria can survive on using chemosynthesis.
Its like when we eat a hamburger…
Bigger predators eat these animals, and usually
don’t go around eating the Primary Producers.