Sponge
The phylum of sponges
What is Porifera?
Two soft coral
What is Sea whip and Sea fan?
The phylum for Cnidarians
What is Cnidaria?
Name 5 coral restoration techniques
What is transplantation, coral gardening, artificial reefs, coral microfragmentation, coral seeding?
Cyanobacteria are present on reefs and..
What is fix nitrogen into nitrogen compounds (including nitrates)?
The two types of structural supports
What is Spongin and Spicules?
4 hard coral
What is Elk horn, Stag Horn, Star, grooved brain coral?
The phylum of comb jellies
What is Ctenophora?
Some of the threats to coral reefs
What is Runoff sediment, chemical pollution, low salinity, warming, tourism, wave stress, and predation?
Characteristics of Soft coral
What is NO basal plate, ahermatypic, octocoral
Pores that allow water to pass through for filter feeding
What are Ostia?
What hard corals are made of
What is Calcium carbonate or Limestone
The types of Cnidarians
What is Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Cubomedusae, Anthozoans?
How corals reproduce
What is Asexual(Budding) and sexual?
Coral bleaching occur in Florida in the summer of 2023 because of..
What is Warming? (temperatures of 90 degrees)
Three types of sponge cells
What are Pinacocytes, porocytes, choanocytes?
Zooxanthellae are...
What is Single-Celled dinoflaggelates that help build a coral with calcium carbonate/limestone?
The larval stage of a Cnidarian
What is Planula?
The types of coral reefs
What is Fringing, Barrier, Atoll, Patch reefs?
How Coral bleaching occurs
What is spitting out zooxanthellae?
The three classes of sponge
What is Demospongia, hexactinellida, Calcarea?
Soft corals are made of...
What is Proteins (monomers are amino acids)?
The two body forms of Cnidarians
What is Medusa and Polyp?
The class corals are in
What is Anthozoa?
The mutualistic relationship between Zooxanthellae and Coral
What is Zooxanthellae help build the coral, and Zooxanthellae have a place to chill?