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?
Grows on reefs and ?
Sea grass pastures.
What are the balloons on Sargassum
Gas bladders
A toxic alien species from the tropics has invaded the?
Medditaranian sea
All red seaweed grow in
Shallow water
A sphere that looks like a dark green water balloon.
Sailors Eye
The longest branches in Sargassum have what
Air bladders
Iridescent chemicals banded with algae to discourage what from eating them?
Fish.
Branch tips requested end in
Sickle hooks
What has twisted dark green straps with slender stalks.
Common caulerpa.
Pelagic sargassum drifts where
Atlantic and gulf currents.
The Sargasso Sea is an endpoint rather than an origin for?
Sargassum
Colors May also be
Yellowish or pinkish green
What are the relatives of green algae?
Caulwepacae.
Brown seaweed has family of
Sargassacea
Red seaweed can absorb what kind of light?
Blue light
Red grapes grow ehere in the shallow end
Hardbottom