Tommy Morteboy Year 11

Assignment 2
Biology

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.









Diatoms
Sea-gulls
Turnstone
Molluscs
Barnacles
Snails
Zooplankton
Phytoplancton
Energy
Energy
Energy
a) (i) Which of the organisms above are herbivores
Snails and Molluscs are the herbivores

(ii) Which are primary consumers
The primary consumers are once again Snails and Molluscs

(iii) Which are autotrophs
Autotrophs from above are Zooplankton, Phytoplankton and Algae

(iv) Which are secondary consumers
The secondary consumers are barnacles, turnstones and once again, snails

(v) Which are tertiary consumers
The tertiary consumers are snails, turnstones and sea gulls

(vi) Which are detritivores
Detritivores are the sea gulls and crustaceans

(vii) Which are heterotrophs?
All of the options above with the exception of algae, zooplankton and phytoplankton