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?
Where do Caulerpa species grow on?
On reefs and sea grass pastures
what do attached sargassum branches connect to?
Tough holdfast
The bubble branchlets of red grapes contain what For buoyancy?
Sugars and protein
Who are red algae related to?
Green algae
Cactus algae grow as chains of what?
Calcareous segments attached to stiff base and rhizoids
Where does league sargassum drift to?
Drifts on gulf and Atlantic currents
What is much of the coarse, white beach in the Keys made of?
Pulverized cactus algae that grew recently
what colors are spiny seaweed?
Yellowish or pale green
Shaving brush algae are firmly anchored by?
Their stiff stalk to mass of rhizoids
how do the three-cornered hat algae live?
Attached and float when free due to air in their fonds
What happens as sargassum drifts?
Provides habitat-life raft for hundreds of species of animals
Where does red algae grow?
Shallow water
Encrusting algae of other types
What is sailor’s eye bubble algae covered with?
Which family are all brown algae in?
Family Sargassaceae
Which currents bring the floating algae to the center of an ocean-spanninggyre?
Current circling the northern Atlantic
Red grapes algae, thicket algae, and coralline algae are distantly related as?
Red algae