Coral Reef Structure
This type of reef grows directly along a coastline.
What is a fringing reef?
The body of corals that stays attached to a surface.
What is a polyp?
Animals with porous bodies that filter water for food.
Wheb corals lose their algae because of heat stress.
This reef type is separated from land by a lagoon.
What is a barrier reef?
The free swimming jellyfish body form.
what is a medusa?
Tiny skeletal structures that support sponges.
What are spicules?
These reef animals eat algae or plants.
What are primary consumers?
What is ocean acidification?
A ring shaped reef that forms around a sunken volcanic island.
What is a atoll?
special stinging cells used for capturing prey.
The sponge class with calcium carbonate sponges.
Predators that eat herbivores.
What are secondary consumers?
Chemicals from this common beach product can harm coral.
What is sunscreen?
The shallow, flat area of a reef that gets strong wave action.
What is the reef crest?
This cnidarian class includes corals and sea anemones and mainly exists as polyps.
This sponge class is commonly called glass sponges?
What is Hexactinellida?
What is a shark?
Nutrient pollution from farms entering the ocean.
What is fertilizer runoff?
Coral reefs grow best in warm, clear water with stable salinity and this temperature range.
What is about 23-29°C
The cnidarian class that includes most jellyfish.
The sponge class that makes up about 90% of sponge species.
Organisms that break down dead material and recycle nutrients.
What is overfishing?