Plant plankton
Plant plankton
By Maggy Wassilieff.
Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand
What are plankton?
The word plankton comes from the Greek 'planktos', which means wandering or drifting. It aptly describes the millions of free-floating organisms living in the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems.
Many kinds of organisms make up plankton; some spend their entire life drifting in the upper ocean, others are members of the plankton community for a time before they develop into stationary or free-swimming adults.
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