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English Assignment
In Bamfield we did many activities and labs, but the lab I really liked was the plankton lab. The name plankton comes from the term drifter or wanderer. There are two types of plankton Phyto and Zoo. The Zoo planktons basically eat the Phyto Planktons to get energy, and the Phyto planktons get there energy from photosynthesis. If we put together all the living things in the world, planktons would be 1/3 of the population. During our oceanography activity we collected both Zoo and Phyto Planktons and took them to the lab. We looked at them separately under a microscope, and then we were allowed to put the two planktons together. Right away the Zoo Plankton started eating the Phyto Plankton. Here is a video and a picture of the planktons under the microscopes. In conclusion the Plankton species are a really cool species and I would like to learn a lot more about them.