Green Algae
Forms a domed clump in the water
What is Greene fleece?
Disappears in cold months
What is Dictyota?
Has photosynthetic pigment that absorbs blue light
what is red algae?
Where red grape‘s holdfasts attach
What is a shell or pebble?
Slender stalks attached to rhizomes
What is common caulerpa?
Turns dark brown
What does Pelagic sargassum do on the beach?
Provides habitat life for hundreds of species of animals
What is sargassum?
Thicket algae‘s branch shape
What is flat and evenly forked?
Looks like a small water balloon
What is sailors eye?
Attached sargassum leaves
Are covered by faint dots?
Used by Iridescent-banded algae to discourage grazing by fish
what is bitter chemicals
Where branching coralline algae grows
what is shallow sea grass beds?
Grow nearshore reef out to 50 ft
Green-brown bubbles-balls that appear partially flattened
What is balloon seaweed?
A single enormous cell
What is sailors eye?
branch tips that end in sickle roots
What is Hypenea?