Stentor

stentor is a type of protozoa that likes to sway back and foward feeding on bacteria and smaller protozoa. Stentor has a big mouth ligned with cilia that it uses to make a wave which it uses to atract food to it's stomach. When something or someone bothers it will contract or disssapear into the pond dabree. Cilia are tail like projections and that is how it feeds. The stentor is named after the Greek Herald of the Trojan war. Stentor is most comonly found in calm water of ponds and lakes. When it wants to swim freely it will take form of a different shape. The website we found this information is found in http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=2367f25-Dc80-43ED-8A02-D9E88169955c     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stentor

This is a picture of how a stentor looks like you can't see cilia but it is there.

This is were we also got info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stentor     Image: www.enviormentalleverage.com/bug%20photos/st       

                      This is a artist drawing of cilia.

Image: www.hhmi.org/.../sept2005/cilia_detail.jpg

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This section is where we ask questions and you answere them, Ready?

Q#1. What Greek god was this protozoa named after? The great Herald.

Q#2. What does the Stentor feed on? Bacteria and other protozoa.

Q#3. How does the Stentor atract food? The cilia aligned in it's mouth.

Q#4.What does the Stentor do when something or someone bothers it? It contracts into the pond dabree.

Q#5. Where is the Stentor most comonly found? It's found in calm waters in ponds or lakes. 

                                       5 Facts about stentors

Did you know that stentors are never found in a moving steam.

Did you know that Stentors are most common in clean & still water.

Did you know that Stentors can live in green algae.

Did you know that a Stentor can live for over 1000 years because when its prey come to attack it retracts in to the water it lives in.

Did you know that Stentors are consumers not producers.

                                         What eats the Stentor?

Well actually the stentor has lots of prey but, when anything gets neer it it contracts in to the still pond or lake.