Plankton Facts

 

• Plankton can be divided into phytoplankton, which are tiny plants, and zooplankton, which are tiny animals, but the division is blurred.
• Most phytoplankton is very tiny indeed and so called nannoplankton and microplankton. Zooplankton is generally bigger and called macroplankton.
• Green algae that give many ponds a bright green floating carpet are kinds of plankton.
• Pliytoplankton get their energy by photosynthesis just like other plants.
• Countless puffs of oxygen given out by plankton early in Earth’s history gave the air its vital oxygen.
• Plankton is the basic food of all large ocean animals.