Plankton

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Plankton
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What is plankton?
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Plankton
Living things that must float along with the
current. Most plankton are very small!
(But not all!)
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Phytoplankton Zooplankton
Plant-like animals
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PHYTOPLANKTON

• Like plants, get their energy from the sun
• So many phytoplankton in the ocean,
• You can see them from space!!!

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What makes sea foam?
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Phaeocystis
A kind of phytoplankton that lives in sticky
balls. When they get churned up by the waves they
make the water white and foamy.
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What makes most of the oxygen we breath?
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PHYTOPLANKTON! For example, Diatoms
Diatoms make glass shells of all shapes and
colors. Glass shell is like a greenhouseneed to
get light from the sunall phytoplankton do!
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What makes light in the sea at night?
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Noctiluca
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Known as the night light phytoplankton
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What causes raindrops to form?
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Coccolithophores
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What causes red tide?
What causes red tide?
https//www.e-education.psu.edu/earth540/content/c
7_p1.html (source Buckner, serc.carleton.edu)

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Dinoflagellates
Phytoplankton that make nasty poisons to keep
themselves from being eaten. Dont eat clams or
mussels during red tide or they could make you
sick!
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Where does gasoline come from?
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Foraminiferans

• Tiny phytoplankton that sink to the bottom of the
  sea and can form big puddles of oil.
• The gas used to fuel your parents cars is from
  oil trapped underground for millions of years.

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Remember Zooplankton? Animal plankton
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ZOOPLANKTON

• Some of these animals drift for their whole lives
  in the water (holoplankton)
• Copepod Comb Jelly
  Larvacean
• Some only drift there until they grow up
  (meroplankton)they are babies, or larvae

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Copepod
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COMB Jellies
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Larval Sea Urchin Pluteus
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Larval Crab Zoea
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Larval Sea Slug Veliger
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Larval Fish Fry
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What Eats Plankton??
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Baleen Whales (Humpback)
http//www.flickr.com/photos/gwoodford/229881619/
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Scallop
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Sand Dollar
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Other Plankton
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