Back to the Basics
A factor in an ecosystem that is nonliving; Ex- air, temperature, light, water.
What is abiotic?
Plant part which excretes salt in black mangroves
What is leaves?
3 species of seagrass found in the Keys ecosystem
What are Turtle, Shoal, Manatee Grass?
Name one way coral reefs benefit marine species
What are food, shelter, and protection?
Substance which makes up bottles, bags and beads and can greatly harm marine ecosystems
What is plastic?
Ecosystem type for the Florida Keys
What is subtropical?
Mangroves serve as _ for juvenile fish and invertebrate species
What are nurseries?
Percent of the ocean floor which seagrasses make up
0.2%
Extremely high-temperature waters may cause this to happen to coral
What is bleaching?
Process which occurs when mangroves are destroyed and causes receding shorelines
What is erosion?
Number of degrees between the Florida Keys and the Tropic of Cancer?
What is 25?
Substance which gives red mangroves their color and allows them to grow in saltwater.
What are tannins?
Shoal grass is known as a _ because it has the ability to colonize a damaged area
What is a pioneer species?
Miles of coral reef in the Florida Keys reef system?
Coral reefs in South Florida generate this many dollars for the economy
What is 2 Billion?
Organize the following levels of ecology from smallest to largest: Biosphere, Organism, Community, Population, Ecosystem
What is Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biosphere?
Shape of a propagule in a white mangrove
What is a sunflower seed?
Seagrass helps prevent which process from occurring due to its ability to uptake carbon.
What is ocean acidification?
I am a brightly colored fish who rules the reef. My trailing fins allow me to glide gracefully through the water, but I stay away from snorkelers and divers.
What is Queen Angelfish?
Dangerous practice which suffocates mangrove roots and causes them to become flooded.
What is dredging?
Remora suckerfish can attach themselves to sharks. The shark protects the remora from predators, and the remora has no effect on the shark. Type of relationship?
What is commensalism?
Scientific/formal name for ecosystems that can exist in freshwater and saltwater conditions.
What are Facultative Halophytes?
Below-ground structures in seagrasses which allow them to stabilize sediments in coastal areas.
What are roots and rhizomes?
Name of the photosynthetic cells that live within reef-building corals?
What is Zooxanthellae?
In 2010, this type of industrial disaster killed thousands of marine species and contaminated habitats in the Gulf of Mexico
What is an oil spill? (Deepwater Horizon for extra points)