Pond Micro-organism

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Description Average Size: <0.5mm

Movement: slow gliding movement Other: brownish, cell wall is silica and has 2 parts. Lives alone or in a colony.

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Name: Diatom Classification (group): Algae

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Pond Micro-organism

Description Average Size: 1.5mm- 2cm

Movement: leech like motion Other: hair bundles, includes earthworms and Tubifex, suckers each end.

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Name: Segmented worms Classification (group): Worms

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Pond Micro-organism

Description Average Size: 0.1-0.5 mm

Movement: no information Other: two tails, hairy, round mouth opening.

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Name: Gastrotrichs Classification (group): Gastrotrichs

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Pond Micro-organism

Description Average Size: 1-15+mm

Movement: move in gliding fashion Other: flattened, two or more eye spots.

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Name: Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) Classification (group): Worms

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Pond Micro-organism

Description Average Size: 0.5-2mm

Movement: no information Other: spherical colonies, cells with two flagella

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Name: Green algae (Chlorophyta) Classification (group):

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Pond Micro-organism

Description Average Size: 0.01-0.1mm

Movement: no information Other: immobile, spherical With radiating hair-like pseudopods

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Name: Heliozoans (Sun animalcules) Classification (group): Protozoa

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Pond Micro-organism

Description Average Size: 0.2-1mm

Movement: free swimming or attached Other: wheel-like, hairy appendages, transparent

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Name: Rotifers Classification (group): Rotifers

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Meets standard Clearly captured and identified sufficient characteristics to make a reasonable classification of 5 micro-organisms Described clearly using scientific terms if possible

Above standard More than 5 microorganisms identifed

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