Green Algae
Brilliant white when bleached in sun.
What is cactus algae?
Turns dark brown on beach.
What is pelagic sargassum?
Have bitter chemicals that discourage grazing by fish
What is iridescent-banded algae?
Where branching coralline algae grows?
What is shallow seagrass beds?
“sailor’s eye” family
What is Valoniaceae?
balloon seaweed appear partially
What is flattened?
The color of the light that the photosynthetic pigment absorbs
What is blue light?
fragile, pale-pink branches, and study branchlets
What is spiny seaweed?
Pale yellow rhizomes with green branches
What is Grape caulerpa?
Shape of the three cornered hat algae fronds.
Contains sugars and proteins
What is the red grapes bubble branches?
Grows in clam lagoons and as an unattached drift algae
What is graceful redweed?
4in long, long green straps, and slender stalks that is attached to rhizomes.
What is common caulerpa?
Dictyota is extremely abundant in what areas of Florida
What is Florida Keys?
The sea that a toxic alien species of caulerpa invaded
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
How do Hypnea branch tips end up in
What is sickle hooks?
The habitat for both of the Caulerpa species
What is reefs and seagrass pastures
The currents that the Pelagic sargassum drifts on
What are gulf and Atlantic currents?
Makes up the white beach in the Keys
What is recently or thousand year old pulverized cactus algae?
Distantly related as red algae
What are thicket algae, red grapes algae, and coralline algae?