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Vocabulary
Types of Phytoplankton
Life of Phytoplankton
Etc.
Food Chain
100
Pre- and post- are location examples of this afix.
What is a prefix?
100
This type of phytoplankton has two tails. (page 293)
What is dinoflagellates?
100
Near the surface of the ocean or in mud flats or in freshwater ponds. (page 291)
What is where phytoplankton live?
100
Phytoplankton are like two different living organisims. (page 292)
What are plants or animals?
100
By using this method, phytoplankton can capture food that is larger than itself. (page 293)
What is spearing with a harpoon?
200
to change
What is transform?
200
This type of phytoplankton is a floater. (page 294)
What is diatom?
200
Phytoplankton help people to breathe by making this gas that humans need to breathe. (page 293)
What is oxygen?
200
This is the word for the tail of a phytoplankton. (page 293)
What are flagella?
200
These tiny animals eat phytoplankton. (page 294)
What is zooplankton?
300
the part of the air or a body of water that is moving along on a path.
What is currents?
300
Another word for phytoplankton. (page 290)
What is microalgae?
300
Phytoplakton use this process to change sunlight into the nutrients that they need.
What is photosynthesis?
300
This product of phytoplankton helps us heat our homes and move our cars. (page 299)
What is gas or oil?
300
Small fishes eat this. (page 294)
What is zooplankton?
400
This word means thick, rich, and abundant.
What is lush?
400
The number of different kinds of phytoplankton. (page 291)
What are thousands of different kinds?
400
Phytoplankton live near the surface of the water but they are not good at this. (page 294)
What is swimming?
400
Phytoplankton are called this because they feed so many species. (page 295)
What is "the grass of the sea"?
400
When there is a lot of phytoplankton, the ocean looks this color (page 297)
What is green?
500
When phytoplankton does this, it means that the phytoplankton is growing well.
What is thrive?
500
Microscopic phytoplankton are responsible for these large underwater "cities".
What are coral reefs?
500
When many of this type of phytoplankton die, they build up on the bottom of the ocean to create limestone. (page 297)
What are coccolithophores?
500
This causes some phytoplankton to glow at night. (page 298)
What is bioluminesce?
500
Create about half of the world's oxygen. (page 299)
What is the way phytoplankton helps humans breathe?