URL: ScienceKids.co.nz/gamesactivities/microorganisms.htmlLevels: Grades 2-5 Description: Students will learn about microorganisms, the study of microbiology and why these tiny creatures are so important to living things. Microorganisms are important to life on Earth, acting as decomposers in various...
A new study has found that the microbial food web accounts for most of the carbon circulating in Amazonia's lakes, floodplains and wetlands. "We concluded from our research that the amount ofcarboncirculating in the microbialfoodweb in floodplain lakes in the Amazon is up to ten times the a...
Where do microorganisms live? No climate is too hot or too cold for microorganisms and no place is too wet or too dry. They can make a homein the North Poleas well as in a geyser. They can live in a rock or in the deepest part of an ocean. Microbes called extremophiles have been ...