Aquatic Producers Review - CAITLIN Holgado | Library

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Sort the characteristics into Seagrasses, Mangroves, or both.

Must be water pollinated.
Started out as land flowering plants that have gradually evolved to live in sea water.
Leaves sweat out salt or have a waxy waterproof covering
Must be able to grow totally submersed;
Sheltered shallow water along the coast in sandy and muddy areas below the low tide level.
Roots and leaves totally submersed
Reduce effects of hurricanes
Sheltered, shallow, nutrient-rich water along the coast in sandy and muddy areas at the tidal level.
Must be securely anchored to withstand wave action and tidal currents
Able to grow in anoxic (low-no oxygen) waters
Adapted to live in high saline (salty)

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Reproduce Sexually –produce a flower that blooms underwater and is pollinated underwater by pollen carried in water currents.
Reproduce Asexually – rhizomes -horizontal stems sending out roots and shoots that occur below the sediments
Harmed by overfishing and Dredging
Reproduce Sexually – produce flowers that are pollinated. Seeds germinate while still on the plant - roots are on top. Seed falls and floats until it roots.
Have Pneumatophores/erect/aerial roots that form of upward appendages that are not submerged underwater so the root can get oxygen in a low oxygen environment.
Have Lenticels/ small pores present on aerial roots – allows for gas exchange. They can be blocked by crude oil, pollution, and attacks by parasites.
Harmed by deforestation for wood/timber
Part of food chains & webs
Nursery areas

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Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic organisms that produce _______ . This helped set up our atmosphere for more organisms to survive and thrive.

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Cyanobacteria are also called blue-green algae, but this is a bad name because they are actually more closely related to _______ .

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Cyanobacteria are _______ because they do not have  a nucleus.

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Euglenophyta		TOP productive group -25% of all photosynthetic biomass
Rhodophyta		Ancestor to green plants
Bacillariophyta		Also called seaweed or kelp
Chrysophyta		Causes red tides
Phaeophyta		Golden Algae - Freshwater only
Dinophyta		Largest group of algae/found the deepest
Chlorophyta		Only algae that has both autotrophic and heterotrophic species