Friday, December 21, 2018

Fun Facts To Learn About Foraminifera

By Lisa Meyer


It is always nice when you can find something that is educational, particularly for the young ones. It is easy to forget just how steeped in wonder the natural world is when we get too caught up in the day-to-day. It is a great idea to get young people's curiosity sparked by showing them something like foraminifera, also commonly called forams.

Some people simply cannot learn new information when they just have to sit and listen to somebody give a lecture on it. There are plenty of people who find that more hands-on approaches to learning are more effective. That is a great reason to try out looking at these organisms under a microscope in the classroom.

It is a good idea to go online and research this a little bit if you are not very familiar with it. The great thing about doing your research this way is that you can do it at your own convenience. It is generally a lot easier to find out new information when you are able to learn it the way that you want to and when you are best able to concentrate on it.

It is possible to find these creatures on the last, but not very likely at all. Most of them live in the oceans, particularly on the bottom of the ocean where there are plenty of other sea creatures for them to live on. It is not that difficult to find them in freshwater, so this is the method that many people take when trying to get their hands on some in their area.

You can usually learn a lot if you just look at some helpful pictures or diagrams. These will often explain things better than words will if you are not very familiar with this type of thing. When you can look at a picture, and particularly when you can fill in parts of a diagram, it makes this whole topic a lot easier to understand.

These creatures are armored, which is great for keeping their core protected. The shell that surrounds their middle section is one of the features that makes them quite easy to identify. The scientific name for this shell is the test, and an easy way to remember that is by thinking that the foram is going to "test" the hardness of its shell by ramming it up against a hard surface.

The way that this creature eats is certainly a sight to behold. A membrane that surrounds it goes off in many little arms that resemble fibers or hairs. These are used for many different purposes, but one of the main ones is bringing in things for this organism to eat.

Some people wonder why they can't see these things with their naked eye. The truth, although obvious as it might seem, is simply that they are too small. Being only single-celled organism, they are much too tiny for a person to be able to look at unless they have special magnification tools like a microscope.




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