On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Plankton. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as organism or being and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Plankton meaning
- Organisms, especially small and microscopic ones, that drift in water.
- A plankter, any single organism that drifts in water.
Using Plankton
- The main meaning on this page is: Organisms, especially small and microscopic ones, that drift in water. | A plankter, any single organism that drifts in water.
- Useful related words include: organism, being.
- In the example corpus, plankton often appears in combinations such as: plankton and, the plankton, of plankton.
Context around Plankton
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plankton
- In this selection, "plankton" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sieving, great, song, feeding, asks and blooms stand out and add context to how "plankton" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and eat plankton and and removing plankton according to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plankton" sits close to words such as accrington, agonizing and allocates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plankton
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Researchers suspect the species eats plankton and small fishes. (9 words)
Thus, though salps are bigger than other types, they are plankton. (11 words)
Zoea float as plankton and occasionally wash up on shore in large quantities. (13 words)
In the song, Plankton asks Karen—true fans will remember she is Plankton’s virtual assistant at the Chum Bucket—to provide a beat and then he spits some bars about getting the heck out of dodge when things get too real. (42 words)
As a result of this pioneering study in 2004, Thompson coined the phrase “microplastics”, for fragments smaller than 5mm (and which are now so ubiquitous that some plankton have been found to ingest them). (34 words)
The existence and importance of nano- and even smaller plankton was only discovered during the 1980s, but they are thought to make up the largest proportion of all plankton in number and diversity. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
At sea they fall prey to just about any creatures that feed by sieving plankton from the sea, from the great plankton-feeding whales down.
In the song, Plankton asks Karen—true fans will remember she is Plankton’s virtual assistant at the Chum Bucket—to provide a beat and then he spits some bars about getting the heck out of dodge when things get too real.
The existence and importance of nano- and even smaller plankton was only discovered during the 1980s, but they are thought to make up the largest proportion of all plankton in number and diversity.
Excessive plankton blooms can cause eutrophication, a process in which water bodies become overly nutrient-rich.
Given the room and time to thrive, the nutrient-rich waters of South Georgia are full of plankton and krill which underpin the food chain for creatures on and around the islands.
Researchers suspect the species eats plankton and small fishes.
The mussels reproduce quickly and attach in large numbers to boats, clog pipes and pumps and other infrastructure, and cause ecological impacts as they filter out and eat plankton.
The quagga mussel, first discovered in the United States in 1989, is an invasive species that alters the food web by filtering water and removing plankton, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
They are sustained by feeding on animal plankton and drift around in huge flotillas which can contain millions of individuals.
Treated sewage does not contain harmful bacteria but it is still full of nitrates and phosphates that plankton feed on, he added.
Unfortunately, he gathers up the worst of the worst, including Patrick, Sandy, and the tragic sympathetic villain Plankton, none of whom can hold a tune.
Zoea float as plankton and occasionally wash up on shore in large quantities.
A decorator crab perches on top of a sea squirt to comb the water for drifting plankton.
Iron only becomes soluble at "useful" levels when linked with ligands, which keep iron in a form that plankton can consume.
Marine life, especially plankton and algae, which form the foundation of the aquatic food chain, is particularly vulnerable to high radiation levels.
People eat a type of protein called soylent green, which at first appears to be made from plankton, but it turns out (spoiler alert) to be made from deceased humans.
Plankton, in particular, is the basis of the diet of many marine species such as whales, dolphins, squid and emperor penguins.
The sea’s plankton is the engine of all life on Earth; without the cyanobacteria that generated atmospheric oxygen, life wouldn’t have got much further than single-celled microbes.
Thus, though salps are bigger than other types, they are plankton.
As a result of this pioneering study in 2004, Thompson coined the phrase “microplastics”, for fragments smaller than 5mm (and which are now so ubiquitous that some plankton have been found to ingest them).
Common combinations with plankton
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- plankton and 12×
- the plankton 5×
- of plankton 4×
- plankton in 3×
- that plankton 3×
- from plankton 3×
- plankton is 3×
- on plankton 3×
- plankton which 3×
- plankton from 2×