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Plants

Plants (Plantae) are always the first step in a food chain. They need sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce material that is used as food. In the water there are 3 different groups of plants. Phytoplankton is plant plankton. It is one-celled and can only be seen under a microscope. It is drifting in the water – mostly close to the surface. The phytoplankton is the beginning of the food chain, without it there is no life in the water.