Green Algae
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?
Cauldron species are in the family ________
What is Caulerpaceae?
Is formed of flat, splitting, green-brown blades with concentric bands and a common holdfast
What is Iridescent-banded algae?
Have photosynthetic pigment that absorbs blue light
What is red algae?
The bubble branchlets of red grapes contain protein for?
What is buoyancy so that strands remain upright in water.
Cactus algae grow as chains of ______ ________
What are calcareous segments?
These algae largely disappear in cold months
What is Dictyota?
The mid-Atlantic Sargasso Sea is an ______ for pelagic sargassum
What is endpoint?
Structure of Hypnea cervicornis
What is numerous, pointy branchlets, with no hooks.
Green fleece algae grow on nearshore reef out to
What is 50 ft?
Pelagic sargassum drifts on
What are gulf and Atlantic currents?
Sailor’s eye is a ____, _______ _____, one of the largest known to science
What is single, enormous cell?
Similar name for graceful redweed
What is Gracilariaceae?
Similar name for Sailor’s Eye
What is Ventricaria ventricosa?
Similar name of Three-cornered hat algae
What is Turbinaria turbinata?
Much of the coarse, white beach in the Keys is made of ________ _______ _____
What is pulverized cactus algae?
Red algae are ____ to brown algae and _____ _______ to green algae
What is unrelated and somewhat related?