Marine Microbes
Single celled microscopic marine organisms
Marine Microbes
An organism that can not swim against major currents
Plankton
The three types of multicellular algae
Red, green, and brown algaes
The type of marine plant that lives completely underwater
Sea grasses (hydrophytes)
The process where energy from sunlight is captured and used to create sugars and other organic molecules.
Photosynthesis
An example of a marine microbe that is photosynthetic
Cyanobacteria, dinoflagelletes, diatoms, coccolithophores
The two types of plankton
What are phytoplankton and zooplankton?
Three parts of algae
Blade, stipe, holdfast, air bladder
leaves, stems, roots
An organism that gets energy by consuming other organisms
heterotroph (heterotrophic)
Two marine microbes that are heterotrophic and in domain Eukarya
Radiolarians and foraminiferans (also fungi).
The two types of zooplankton AND what makes them different from each other.
Holoplankton (permanent) and meroplankton (temporary). Holoplankton are always plankton, meroplankton eventually leave the planlton population (become something like a fish or crab).
Two ways algae are important to other marine life
Food source and provide shelter/habitat
The pigment used by plants to capture energy from sunlight
chlorophyll (green).
The domain that contains all organisms that have cells with a nucleus, and all multicellular organisms.
Domain Eukarya
Two ways microbes are important to other marine life
Food source, break down dead materials (decomposers), provide energy in areas without sunlight, provide oxygen
Why plankton are important
They are the base of the food chain.
Also, phytoplankton produce oxygen.
The four pigments that are used by algae to capture sunlight for photosynthesis
Chlorophyll (green), Xanthophyll (yellow), Phycoerythrin (red) and Phycocyanin (blue)
Two ways marine plants are important to other marine organisms
Provide shelter
Stabilize sediment
Base of the detrital food chain.
The four kingdoms in domain Eukarya
Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, and Protista