What I Learned About Plankton

   At first when I learned about plankton I thought it would be very boring but actually when we started to watch videos of actual footage about them I learned there's a lot more interesting thing I am swimming in when I go to the beach.   For one thing I learned there are 2 different types of plankton, zooplankton, and phytoplankton.  Zooplankton are plankton that actually end of being animals while phytoplankton are more like plants.  One thing I thought was the most interesting was that these things are super tiny and almost needle point size.  They all live as the first layer of the ocean and are 100s maybe even thousands in a cup of ocean water.
    Even though these things are tiny they still eat, and while phytoplankton go through photosynthesis, zooplankton feast on each other.  Most of them don't get to adult hood because of their preys.  Something I also will always remember is that the plankton Phronima gave producers the idea of the movie Aliens.  I actually ended up liking this unit and even though I usually sleep through movies in class, the video that we watched on planktons kept me awake the whole time.

I also now know what Plankton on SpongeBob actually is:)