Reefs
Grows along the continental shelf or island
What is a fringing reef?
what is reef zonation
Another way to classify organisms and the study of an organisms evolutionary history
What is phylogenetics
A measure of how much oxygen is dissolved in the water
what is dissolved oxygen
electromagnetic spectrum
Linear or circular reefs separated from the land mass by a well developed lagoon
What is a barrier reef?
Is an area that sloped into a lagoon
what is the back reef zone?
Taxonomists use modern technology to check physical characteristics
What is modern classification
the amount of dissolved gas the water can hold
what is solubility
forms peak to peak or from trough to trough
What are wavelengths
A barrier reef around a volcano continues to subside corals build up toward the surface
What is a Atoll reef?
At the surface on the seaward side of the coral reed crest includes a zone that protects the reef flat from incoming waves
What is the buttress zone
is the study of biological diversity and its origins
what is systematics
the amount of gas currently dissolved in the water relative to the maximum possible content
what is saturation
(0-200m) enough for photosynthesis
What is the euphotic zone
What are patch reefs?
From about 70 meters depth on
what is the fore reef
depicts the order of appearance but not the actual timeline
what is a cladogram
bottom-dwelling
what is benthic
(200-1000m) twilight zone diminishes light but little photosynthesis
what is the Dyshotic zone
In barrier reefs the reef flat zone is located on the ocean side of the back reef zone
What is reef zonation?
Which reef does not have a lagoon or back reef?
A fringing reef
a group of organisms that includes the ancestors and descendants of that ancestor
what is a Clade?
(without oxygen) shows severe forms of Hypoxia with oxygen below 0.5 mqll
what is Anoxic zones
No light (7000)
what is The aphotic zone