How Much You Know About Plankton? Quiz!
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- 1.
![The term "plankton" comes from the Greek word planktos, which means...
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The term "plankton" comes from the Greek word planktos, which means...- A.
Wandering
- B.
Floating
- C.
Innumerable
- D.
Transparent
- 2.
![What distinguishes phytoplankton from other types of plankton?
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What distinguishes phytoplankton from other types of plankton?- A.
Phytoplankton are plants, zooplankton are animals
- B.
Phytoplankton are female, zooplankton are males
- C.
Phytoplankton are artificial, zooplankton are real
- D.
Phytoplankton are larger than zooplankton
- 3.
![Why are phytoplankton important?
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Why are phytoplankton important?- A.
They are the base of the food chain in the ocean
- B.
They are pretty, oh so pretty
- C.
They are food for seals and sharks
- D.
They are the top of the food chain in the ocean
- 4.
![According to the video, how abundant are plankton?
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According to the video, how abundant are plankton?- A.
There can be more than a million in a teaspoon of water
- B.
The weight of all the plankton in Lake Erie would be equal to the weight of the Empire State Building
- C.
If you lined up all the Earth's plankton, end-to-end, they would stretch to the moon
- D.
They account for about half of all the biomass on the planet
- 5.
![All plankton are microscopic.
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All plankton are microscopic.- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.
![What’s one of the more interesting parenting behaviors of the amphipod Phronima?
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What’s one of the more interesting parenting behaviors of the amphipod Phronima?- A.
She eats her young if no other food is available
- B.
She creates a house for her young from the carcass of her prey
- C.
She decapitates other plankton—including other Phronima, if nearby— to feed her young
- D.
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
- 7.A fish narrates this video. How does plankton figure into the fish's story?
- A.
The fish ate plankton during its larval days
- B.
The fish was plankton during its larval days
- C.
The fish was bycatch in a commercial krill fishing harvest
- D.
During a red tide, phytoplankton produced a neurotoxin that killed the fish
- 8.
![Why did the narrator call this "edible gold"?
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Why did the narrator call this "edible gold"?- A.
It's phytoplankton, which make their own food through photosynthesis
- B.
If you eat them, your teeth will turn gold
- C.
They are gold colored
- D.
Zooplankton farm phytoplankton in fields of gold
- 9.
![Why is this plankton green?
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Why is this plankton green?- A.
It's phytoplankton, it contains chlorophyll like all other plants and chlorophyll is GREEN
- B.
The green in this organism is a reflection from a green fish that is passing by
- C.
It's made out of jade
- D.
It probably ate lots of green shrimp
- 10.Phytoplankton lives near the surface so that they can capture energy from sunlight.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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