The story for kids
This is an amoeba. It's just one single cell, but it's alive. It has no legs, but it crawls by stretching part of its body forward. Watch how it eats. It comes up to a bacterium, wraps its body around it, and swallows it. Then the food gets digested inside it.
Facts
- An amoeba is just one cell, but it is a living creature.
- It has no legs: it crawls by stretching part of its body forward.
- It surrounds its food and swallows it with its whole body.
Numbers
- Size
- 0.25–0.5 mm
- Lives in
- Ponds, damp soil
- Eats
- Bacteria, algae
- Reproduces
- Splits in two