Green Algae
Brown Algae
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Red Algae
100

Has long, pale rhizomes with green branches.

What is grape caulerpa?

100

Turns dark brown on beach.

What is pelagic sargassum?

100

Have bitter chemicals that discourage grazing by fish

What is iridescent-banded algae?

100

Where branching coralline algae grows.

What is shallow seagrass beds?

200

Two caulerpa species grow on this specific habitat.

What is reefs?

200

Heterokonts are in this class.

What is Phaeophyceae?

200

Iridescent-banded algae have bitter chemicals to discourage this.

What is grazing by fish?

200

This has greenish to bright red formed branches of sinuous clumps.

What is graceful red weed?

300

Cactus algae and shaving brush algae are together in this family.

What is Udoteaceae?

300

This algae has greenish-brown, fan shape fronds.

What is Padina?

300

Rather than an origin, the mid-Atlantic Sargasso Sea serves as this for pelagic sargassum.

What is an end-point?

300

Where all red algae grow in.

What is shallow water?

400

This algae is drab green when alive and brilliant white when bleached.

What is cactus algae?

400

This algae lives attached and float when free due to air in their fronds.

What is three-cornered hat algae?

400

The bubble-branchlets of red grapes contain this in order to maintain buoyancy.

What is sugars and proteins?

400

Red grapes algae, thicket algae, and coralline algae are part of this group of species.

What is Rhodophyta?

500

This algae has forked, spongy, dirty green fingers attached to a single holdfast.

What is green fleece?

500

Three-cornered hat algae live in this habitat.

What is rocks in turbulent waters?

500

This species has invaded the Mediterranean Sea, causing ecological troubles.

What is a species of caulerpa?

500

This algae has reddish, flat, evenly forked branches rooted at a single holdfast.

What is thicket algae?