SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Some of the producers in the Great Barrier Reef food web are photosynthetic algae, phytoplankton, and seaweed. Some examples of primary consumers are corals, small fish, and zooplankton. Secondary consumers include crab, small fish, and clams. Tertiary consumers include larger fish, sharks, and octopuses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Corals get their food from algae living in their tissues or by capturing and digesting prey. Most reef-building corals have a unique partnership with tiny algae called zooxanthellae. The algae live within the coral polyps, using sunlight to make sugar for energy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The water can be salty or fresh, static or flowing, and each wetland is a unique ecosystem. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, billabongs, lakes, saltmarshes, mudflats, mangroves, coral reefs, fens and peat bogs. There are around 13, 000 wetlands in catchment areas linked to the Great Barrier Reef.