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?
What is a sailors eye and how can you tell it apart?
Bubble algae, its 2 in 5 cm spheres looks like a smooth turgid, dark green, miniature water balloon .
what are the identifying features of balloon seaweed?
Why do iridescent banded algae have bitter chemicals?
to discourage grazing by fish.
Red spiceweed
Has fragile pale pack with shabby coullers also be yellowish or Green
15 cm long, has pale yellow with green branchlets bearing stabby branchlets with tips.
Grape caulerba
Dictyeta Identifiers:
12 inches has flat olive brown fronds with smooth margins in a polled outer margin
The mid atlantic. is an end point for pelagic sargassum rather than an origin. True or false?
Red algae is related to brown algae true or false?
false
10 cm long, has slightly twisted dark-green straps with slender slacks.
Common caulerpa
Has greenish-brown,fan shape.Other padina species are less common.
Padina
Sailors eye is a single enormous cell that can clone. True or false?
What is the habitat?
All grow in shallow water and can attach to anything as unattached drift algae
What is the habitat where BOTH of the species mentioned above reside?
They grow on reefs and sea grass pastures .
Hard bottom in shallow water in Florida keys.
What is the habitat of brown algae?
Much of the coarse white beach is made of————————-
Pulverized cactus algae that grew recently or thousands of years ago
What are the identifying features of red grapes?
12 inches long, have bubble like branchlets can grow in clamps if attached to a pebble