2. What is plankton? http://www.flickr.com/photos/76798465@N00/4170258894/

3. Plankton Living things that must float along with the current. Most plankton are very small! (But not all!) http://www.flickr.com/photos/iita-media-library/6031540791/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellcomeimages/5814147015/

4. Phytoplankton Zooplankton Plant-like animals http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellcomeimages/5814147015/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/76798465@N00/4170258894/

5. PHYTOPLANKTON Like plants, get their energy from the sun So many phytoplankton in the ocean, You can see them from space!!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4628309890/sizes/m/in/photostream/

6. What makes sea foam?

7. Phaeocystis A kind of phytoplankton that lives in sticky balls. When they get churned up by the waves they make the water white and foamy. http://www.flickr.com/photos/90664717@N00/104755500/

8. What makes most of the oxygen we breath?

9. Diatoms make glass shells of all shapes and colors. Glass shell is like a greenhouse—need to get light from the sun—all phytoplankton do! PHYTOPLANKTON! For example, Diatoms http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceduchess/1458804915/

10. What makes light in the sea at night? http://www.flickr.com/photos/agentlebossanova/74363235/sizes/m/in/ photostream/

11. Noctiluca Known as the “night light” phytoplankton http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfwc/5808181396/

12. What causes raindrops to form?

13. Coccolithophores http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnbullas/2054886005/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gephyrocapsa_oceanica_color.jpg

14. What causes red tide? https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth540/content/c7_p1.html (source: Buckner, serc.carleton.edu)

15. Dinoflagellates Phytoplankton that make nasty poisons to keep themselves from being eaten. Don’t eat clams or mussels during red tide or they could make you sick! http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfwc/584218 4813/

16. Where does gasoline come from?

17. Foraminiferans http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumwales/2385069810/ Tiny phytoplankton that sink to the bottom of the sea and can form big puddles of oil. The gas used to fuel your parent’s cars is from oil trapped underground for millions of years.

18. Remember Zooplankton? Animal plankton

19. ZOOPLANKTON Some of these animals drift for their whole lives in the water (holoplankton) Copepod Comb Jelly Larvacean Some only drift there until they grow up (meroplankton)…they are babies, or larvae http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualcrank/3661819626/http://www.flickr.com/photos/malingering/4009908759/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oikopleura_dioica.gif

20. Copepod http://www.flickr.com/photos/manualcrank/3661819626/

21. COMB Jellies http://www.flickr.com/photos/malingering/4009908759/

22. Larval Sea Urchin ~ Pluteus http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelas/1469558777/

23. Larval Crab ~ Zoea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carcinus_maenas,_zoea_larva.png

24. Larval Sea Slug ~ Veliger http://www.flickr.com/photos/52342567@N00/5249363945/

25. Larval Fish ~ Fry http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohioseagrant/5750495785/

26. What Eats Plankton??

27. Baleen Whales (Humpback) http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwoodford/229881619/

28. Scallop http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwilso/3327740710/

29. Sand Dollar http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/3573216068/

30. Other Plankton http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesunanddoves/2303794705/