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What does plankton mean?

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  1. Small (often microscopic) organisms that float in the water. (A single organism is known as a plankter.)
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These anemone eat small crustaceans, plankton and various tidepool animals that venture into the range of their stinging tentacles.
Visibility is affected by the plankton levels and thermoclines that refract the light so that an otherwise perfect image can get a woolly edge.
The expedition also found rings of plankton organisms that measured 10 km wide.
No plankton means no basking sharks or manta rays but it also means exceedingly good visibility.
Their cavernous mouths are used to gather up small fish and plankton in the same manner as baleen whales, hence the name.
The whale shark, the biggest fish on earth, is a plankton feeder and harmless to divers.

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