Types of Plankton
This is the number of types of plankton.
What is 4?
This term is used to describe a sudden growth in the population of phytoplankton.
What is a bloom?
This is the the type of plankton that zooplankton consume for food.
What is phytoplankton
True or false: Zooplankton are primary producers that feed via photosynthesis.
What is false?
These two colors are the most common for water that contains a lot of plankton.
What is green or brown?
This is the type of plankton that use photosynthesis.
What is phytoplankton
This ocean movement brings nutrients up and causes blooms in phytoplankton.
What are upwellings?
What is krill?
This is the biggest animal that consumes zooplankton.
What is a Blue Whale?
This term is used to describe an algal bloom.
What is a red tide?
This is the type of plankton that eat other plankton and are a food source for many crustaceans.
Zooplankton
This is what phytoplankton are made out of.
What are microscopic plants?
True or false: Jellyfish are a type of zooplankton.
What is true?
Phytoplankton serves as this key part of a food web.
What are producers?
What is saltwater and freshwater?
This is the type of plankton that are made primarily of viruses.
Virioplankton
This is the zone of the ocean where phytoplankton is most dominant.
What is the photic zone?
These two Greek words is what "zooplankton" is derived from.
What are "Zoon" and "Planktos"?
True of false: Phytoplankton are the base of the largest food web in the world.
What is true?
This is one of the world's top producers of oxygen.
What is phytoplankton?
This is the type of plankton that is made primarily of bacteria.
Bacterioplankton
Phytoplankton performs this key biological process.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the most common consumer of zooplankton.
What are crustaceans?
What type of plankton resides at the bottom of the food web and is referred to as a primary producer?
what is phytoplankton?
This is one of the nutrients that phytoplankton rely on from their surroundings.
What is Phosphate, nitrate, or calcium? (just need one)