Seaweeds
Formal name for seaweed
What is Macroalgae or Multicellular Algae?
What is the Thallus?
General temperature of water where seagrass is found
What is Tropical (warm) water?
Terrestrial plants that have salt glands in their leaves in order to excrete excess salt
What are Salt-Marsh grasses (plants)?
Eukaryotes have this specific membrane-bound organelle that prokaryotes lack
What is Nucleus?
All seaweeds and unicellular algae fall in this Kingdom
What is Kingdom Protista?
Leaf-like portion of the seaweed and the main photosynthetic region
What is the Blade?
Type of reproduction that allows pollen to be carried away by the currents
What is Sexual Reproduction?
What is Red, White, Black, & Buttonwood
What is Chlorophyll a?
The three classifications or "colors" of seaweed
What is Red, Green, & Brown?
Stalk of the seaweed that resembles a stem
What is the Stipe?
The horizontal stems that grow just beneath the sediment
What are Rhizomes?
Mangroves have special adaptations that allow them to reduce losing this in their leaves
What is Water?
Simple term for Angiosperms
What is Flowering Plants?
Largest and most complex specie of brown seaweed that is found in cold water
What is Kelp?
Anchors the seaweed to rocks and is NOT involved in nutrient absorption
Seagrass is typically found in sediment that are lacking this chemical element
What is Oxygen?
Term for plants that tolerate salt
What is Halophytes?
***DAILY DOUBLE***
Type of seaweed that where certain species have lost all chlorophyll and became heterotrophic
What is Red?
The accessory pigment found in brown seaweeds
What is chlorophyll c?
Can contain gasses such as nitrogen, oxygen, & carbon dioxide
What is Pneumatocyst?
Most widely distributed seagrass species that is distinctively flat and ribbon-like
What is Eelgrass?
Type of mangrove that has dark scaly bark and aerial roots
What is Black Mangrove?
Greek word meaning "self" "feeding"
What is Autotroph?