Phytoplankton
make their food just like plants on
the land. This is called
PHOTOSYNTHESIS (foto-sin-the-sis).
Phytoplankton absorb Carbon Dioxide
and release Oxygen. In fact
phytoplankton produce as much Oxygen
as all the trees in the world, and
they remove 3 billion tonnes of
Carbon Dioxide every year.
Plankton are food for fish, basking
sharks, corals, shellfish and some
whales.
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Plankton
bloom off the coast of Alaska |
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