Aquatic Producers Review

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7 questions

Sort the characteristics into Seagrasses, Mangroves, or both.

Reproduce Sexually –produce a flower that blooms underwater and is pollinated underwater by pollen carried in water currents.

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

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

Cyanobacteria are _______ because they do not have  a nucleus.

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