1. Armor- Covered
Plankton Adapt To
Warming
By: Mykala
Rogers

2. What are Emiliania Huxleyi ?
O Tiny armor- covered creatures that float
along the oceans current.
O Type of plankton.
O Is the base of the oceans food chain.
O The plankton is a coccolithophore, which
means it makes it shell out of calcium
carbonate.

3. How The Ocean Effects The
Plankton
O Plankton can adapt and survive as the
ocean becomes more warm and acidic.
O Even though they adapt they get flimsier
and not such a nutritious snack to the
consumer. They could turn into more of a
“French fry”.
O The building of the shell of the plankton
can be affected because if the ocean is
more acidic it doesn’t contain as much as
their shell material.

4. How The Adapted Plankton
Effect The Food Chain
O Even though the plankton can adapt to the
more acidic ocean the food chain can be
affected.
O The water can effect how nutritious the
plankton are to the consumers.
O The carbon-nitrogen balance becomes
worse which affects nutrients needed
by, the consumers such as zooplankton —
tiny jellyfish, copepods and shrimp.

5. Sources
O http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46994262/ns/te
chnology_and_science-science/
O http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/soes/staff/tt/eh/pic
s/cells/cocco9med.jpg
O http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/images/thumb/
9/9f/Cell_structure.gif/300px-Cell_structure.gif
O http://envlit.ifremer.fr/var/envlit/storage/images
/media/envlit/actualites/2002/ehux2/124420-1-
fre-FR/ehux2.jpg
O http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/images/thumb/
9/9f/Cell_structure.gif/300px-Cell_structure.gif