Amoeba · ELIX

Tap the pond floor to drop food · Tap a part to learn about it

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Try this!

Tap the pond floor near the Amoeba to drop food. Watch it reach out and swallow it.
Tap Split in two! and watch one Amoeba become two.
Keep splitting until there are 4 Amoebas.
Slide False feet all the way up. How does it move now?
Tap all 6 parts to learn their names.

Tinker

Crawl speed RestingBusy False feet OneFive

Fast facts

An Amoeba is one single cell. It lives in ponds, often on the mud at the bottom.
It has no fixed shape. It keeps changing shape as it moves.
It moves and catches food with false feet (pseudopodia).
It makes more Amoebas by splitting in two.
A few kinds of Amoeba can make people sick through dirty water. That's one reason to drink clean water!