diatoms

By: Crystal Wylie

WHAT IS DIATOMS

• Diatoms is a major group of eukaryotic algae.

• and are one of the most common types phytoplankton.

• Diatoms form intricately patterned shells made of silica a glass like substance.

WHAT HAPPENEDS WHEN DIATOMS DIE

• When diatoms die their shells settle to the ocean floor.

• Humans harvest fossilized deposits of these shells to make detergents, fertilizers, paint remover, and insulators.

Salt water centric diatom

Salt water centric diatom frustules skeleton. Diatoms are microscopic, unicellular algae that produce intricate silica glass cell walls that overlap like the top and bottom of a box. When diatoms die, their soft, internal parts deteriorate, leaving their hard, porous, glass skeletons behind.

PICTURE OF A SALT WATER DIATOM

This is a diatom

that came

from salt water.

A PICTURE OF ANOTHER DIATOM

• This color-enhanced

Microscopic image

Shows a diatom

A tiny single celled

Organisms found in

Ocean.

The most realist picture of diatom

Assorted diatom as seenThough a microscope.These specimens were Living between crystalsAnd annual sea ice in Mcmurdo sound, Antarctica. This pictureWas took in 1983.

The mystery diatom

• This is a mystery diatom

that is growing mold this

molded diatom is 3 years

old.

IF SEE GO TO MYSTERY

DIATOM PAGE!!

THERE ARE LOTS OF DIATOMS

• Cocconeis Scutellum

• Diploneis Scutellum

• Diploneis Abormis

• Abmis

• Licmophora flabellate

• Navicula

THE DIATOMS• This is a diatom

THE END!!!