1. diatoms By: Crystal Wylie

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. PICTURE OF A SALT WATER DIATOM This is a diatom that came from salt water.

6. A PICTURE OF ANOTHER DIATOM This color-enhanced Microscopic image Shows a diatom A tiny single celled Organisms found in Ocean.

7. The most realist picture of diatom Assorted diatom as seen Though a microscope. These specimens were Living between crystals And annual sea ice in Mcmurdo sound, Antarctica. This picture Was took in 1983.

8. 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!!

9. THERE ARE LOTS OF DIATOMS Cocconeis Scutellum Diploneis Scutellum Diploneis Abormis Abmis Licmophora flabellate Navicula

10. THE DIATOMS This is a diatom THE END!!!