Planktons are microscopic plants in the aquatic ecosystem. Play this informative quiz to see how much do you you know about plankton. The quiz contains various questions that will gauge your understanding of the topic and will also enhance your information reservoir about them. The quiz will be helpful for a last-minute revision of the topic before the exam. If you like the quiz, do share it with your peers. All the best!
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Phytoplankton are plants, zooplankton are animals
Phytoplankton are female, zooplankton are males
Phytoplankton are artificial, zooplankton are real
Phytoplankton are larger than zooplankton
They are the base of the food chain in the ocean
They are pretty, oh so pretty
They are food for seals and sharks
They are the top of the food chain in the ocean
There can be more than a million in a teaspoon of water
The weight of all the plankton in Lake Erie would be equal to the weight of the Empire State Building
If you lined up all the Earth's plankton, end-to-end, they would stretch to the moon
They account for about half of all the biomass on the planet
True
False
She eats her young if no other food is available
She creates a house for her young from the carcass of her prey
She decapitates other plankton—including other Phronima, if nearby— to feed her young
She attaches her eggs to the gastrovascular opening of the Lion’s Mane Jellyfish so that the larva can feed on the jellyfish’s effluvia
The fish ate plankton during its larval days
The fish was plankton during its larval days
The fish was bycatch in a commercial krill fishing harvest
During a red tide, phytoplankton produced a neurotoxin that killed the fish
It's phytoplankton, which make their own food through photosynthesis
If you eat them, your teeth will turn gold
They are gold colored
Zooplankton farm phytoplankton in fields of gold
It's phytoplankton, it contains chlorophyll like all other plants and chlorophyll is GREEN
The green in this organism is a reflection from a green fish that is passing by
It's made out of jade
It probably ate lots of green shrimp
True
False
True
False
For protection
To attract a mate
To attract prey
To help them in the process of photosynthesis
True
False
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