<p> Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 1 The Seaside Naturalist Plankton, Plants, and Algae Plankton- Page 17</p><p>1. What are the three lifestyles that organisms in the ocean can be broken down into?</p><p>2. Define each in question 1.</p><p>3. All plankton are at the mercy of ______, ______, and ______.</p><p>4. True or false. Plankton is a vital food source for the ocean.</p><p>5. True or false. Plankton can be a plant o animal.</p><p>6. Plant Plankton is called ______.</p><p>7. Animal Plankton is called ______.</p><p>8. What is the benefit of plankton having spikes?</p><p>9. What organisms produce oil to help them float?</p><p>10. What may help the Portuguese Man O War stay afloat? Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 2</p><p>Phytoplankton- Page 18</p><p>1. What is phytoplankton?</p><p>2. It is usually ______.</p><p>3. Examples of phytoplankton are ______and ______.</p><p>4. What percentage of oxygen does phytoplankton produce for the world?</p><p>5. Diatoms:</p><p> a. ______celled</p><p> b. Color ______</p><p> c. Cell wall yes or no.</p><p> d. Cell wall is made up of ______, a glass like substance.</p><p> e. What eats them? </p><p>6. Explain the shell of a diatom. Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 3 7. Dinoflagellates:</p><p> a. How do they propel themselves?</p><p> b. Can they swim? Yes or no.</p><p> c. Responsible for ______to which can lead to ______. Zooplankton- Page 19</p><p>1. They are ______plankton.</p><p>2. Zooplankton that float their entire lives are called ______.</p><p>3. Holoplankton lives in ______</p><p>4. Meroplankton are organisms that are ______and ______.</p><p>5. They are predominant in ______.</p><p>6. What is the benefit of organisms to be plankton?</p><p>7. Explain each:</p><p> a. Nannoplankton-</p><p> b. Microplankton- Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 4</p><p> c. Macroplankton- </p><p> d. Megaplankton-</p><p>Nekton- Page 21</p><p>1. Define nekton.</p><p>2. How does nekton move?</p><p>3. What are some examples of nekton?</p><p>4. What is the only invertebrate nekton?</p><p>5. What limits their range?</p><p>6. What would happen to a tarpon from the Arctic to the Caribbean? Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 5</p><p>Benthos- Page 22</p><p>1. Define benthos.</p><p>2. What is the difference between epiflora and epifauna? Give examples of each.</p><p>3. Where are epiflora found?</p><p>4. How do animals / benthos feed in the deep sea?</p><p>5. Define infauna and give examples.</p><p>Marine Plants- Page 25</p><p>1. What are the oceans flowering plants?</p><p>2. What organisms make up the great bulk of marine plant life? Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 6</p><p>3. Are flowering plants vascular or non-vascular?</p><p>4. Define vascular.</p><p>5. Are algae vascular or non-vascular?</p><p>6. Define non-vascular.</p><p>7. Pelagic algae are ______.</p><p>8. What are the four major groups of algae?</p><p>9. What are they names after?</p><p>10. Why are algae important?</p><p>Blue Green Algae- Page 26</p><p>1. How old is cyanobacteria?</p><p>2. Why are they so intriguing (bacteria and algae)? Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 7</p><p>3. Where is blue green alga present?</p><p>4. What does the marine species look like?</p><p>5. Where is it found on temperate shores?</p><p>6. What protects them from drying out?</p><p>Green Algae- Page 27</p><p>1. True or false. Green algae is more prevalent in freshwater than saltwater.</p><p>2. Only ______percent are marine.</p><p>3. What are six examples of green algae? Give their common name and scientific name.</p><p>4. Describe each one briefly. Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 8</p><p>Red Algae- Page 29 </p><p>1. True or false. Red alga is the most abundant.</p><p>2. Why can reds grow under low light?</p><p>3. Where do they grow? Where do they dominate mostly?</p><p>4. Brown and green are usually found in ______</p><p>5. List five species of red algae. Make sure you give their scientific name and common name. Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 9</p><p>6. Briefly describe each one.</p><p>Calcareous Algae- Page 32</p><p>1. What is so unique about this alga? </p><p>2. What happens when it dies?</p><p>3. What color are most?</p><p>4. Which one talked about is found right here in Florida?</p><p>Brown Algae- Page 33</p><p>1. What are three of our most common large seaweeds?</p><p>2. Where do they grow?</p><p>Kelp- Page 34 Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 10 1. What is Algin?</p><p>2. How are they harvested?</p><p>Rockweeds- Page 35</p><p>1. Describe rockweed that grows along the Atlantic sea coast.</p><p>2. What is the benefit of air bladders?</p><p>3. How are they protected from desiccation?</p><p>4. What are rockweeds used for?</p><p>Sargassum- page 36</p><p>1. What is another name for Sargassum?</p><p>2. What does it look like? Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 11 3. They are the principal seaweed of the ______.</p><p>4. Where is the Sargasso Sea? Describe it.</p><p>5. How much is there?</p><p>6. How does it reproduce?</p><p>7. What types of animals live in the sargassum and why?</p><p>Marine Grasses- page 37</p><p>1. How many species of grasses grow along the Atlantic Coast?</p><p>2. Why are marine grasses considered flowering plants?</p><p>3. What are the two predominate species?</p><p>4. They grow completely ______under water.</p><p>5. What anchors them in the sediment? Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 12</p><p>6. ______and ______occur underwater.</p><p>7. Why are sea grasses important?</p><p>8. On page 38 what are the three grasses that grow in our bay? List the common and scientific name.</p><p>9. What are rhizomes?</p><p>10. Why is it dangerous to rip up any of these grasses? Think about the rhizome structure.</p><p>Mangroves- Page 39</p><p>1. What are the three types of mangroves that grow in Florida?</p><p>2. Where do the red mangroves grow? Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 13 3. What holds the tree firmly in the sediment?</p><p>4. What is their benefit to the environment?</p><p>5. Why are fallen mangrove leaves important?</p><p>6. Describe red mangrove leaves. Why are these adaptations important?</p><p>7. What are red mangrove seeds called?</p><p>8. How do the seeds become a new mangrove tree?</p><p>9. Why are red mangroves called a pioneer community?</p><p>10. Black mangroves have breathing roots called ______11. What is the function of question 10? Stahl Marine Science Unit 5 Plankton, Plants, and Algae 14</p><p>12. Where do black mangroves excrete salt from?</p><p>13. White mangroves grow ______. 14. They have ______salt pores on the leaf stem to excrete excess salt. </p>