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Seafloor vs Planktonic - What's the difference?

seafloor | planktonic |

As a noun seafloor

is the bottom of a sea or ocean; often covered with sediment.

As an adjective planktonic is

of or pertaining to plankton.

seafloor

English

Noun

  • The bottom of a sea or ocean; often covered with sediment.
  • Derived terms

    * seafloor spreading

    See also

    * benthos

    planktonic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to plankton.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 146:
  • *:Tiny shells of planktonic animals rain down from the surface waters of the ocean on to the deep sea-floor.
  • Floating in the open sea rather than living on the seafloor.
  • See also

    * benthic * oceanic * pelagic