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coral - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton
(sea anenome)
-made up of polyps
calcium carbonate - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Produced by organisms that secrete it
makes rigid surface
-(CaCO3)
Coral bodies - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅-tentacles armed with nematocysts
-corallite ("cups that contain the polyps)
Coral feeding - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅zooplankton and dissolved organic matter (DOM)
zooxhanthellae - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅dinoflagellate
-live inside polyp
mutual relationship
-photosythentic, provides glucose oxygen and color
cynobacteria - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅fix nitrogen for zooxanthellae
asexual reproduction in corals - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅budding
sexual reproduction in corals - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅spawning
competition defense - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅corals compete for space and light
, -overgrow
-evaserate mesenterial filaments and digest neighbors
-sting
reef - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the
water
algal ridge - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅A ridge of coralline algae that is found on the outer
edge of some coral reefs.
-absorbs force of the waves and prevents erosions
sedimentation - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅layer of a rock building up over billions of years
cementation - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅The process by which dissolved minerals crystalize
and glue particles of sediment together into one mass.
nitrogen fixation - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅process in which bacteria convert nitrogen gas
into nitrogen compounds plants can use to make proteins
Coral body layers - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅-epidermis
-mesoglea
-endodermis
Coral bleaching - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Zooxanthellae becomes stressed when water
temperature is troo high and are expelled from coral tissue. Coral dies due to lack of
oxygen and food, and turns white.
-Water temperatures go up because of El Nino and global warming
Predators to coral - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Parrotfish, crown of thorns sea star
El Nino - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Current and wind patterns throw things off course
-heat in ocean
-every seven years
eutophication - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅the buildup over time of nutrients in freshwater that
leads to an increase in growth of algae
Atoll - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅-ring shaped reef
-form above undersea voncanic mountains that have collapsed
-susceptible to wave action
-susceptible to predidation
-not as susceptible to human damage
-Example: indio-west pacific
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coral - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton
(sea anenome)
-made up of polyps
calcium carbonate - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Produced by organisms that secrete it
makes rigid surface
-(CaCO3)
Coral bodies - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅-tentacles armed with nematocysts
-corallite ("cups that contain the polyps)
Coral feeding - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅zooplankton and dissolved organic matter (DOM)
zooxhanthellae - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅dinoflagellate
-live inside polyp
mutual relationship
-photosythentic, provides glucose oxygen and color
cynobacteria - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅fix nitrogen for zooxanthellae
asexual reproduction in corals - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅budding
sexual reproduction in corals - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅spawning
competition defense - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅corals compete for space and light
, -overgrow
-evaserate mesenterial filaments and digest neighbors
-sting
reef - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the
water
algal ridge - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅A ridge of coralline algae that is found on the outer
edge of some coral reefs.
-absorbs force of the waves and prevents erosions
sedimentation - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅layer of a rock building up over billions of years
cementation - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅The process by which dissolved minerals crystalize
and glue particles of sediment together into one mass.
nitrogen fixation - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅process in which bacteria convert nitrogen gas
into nitrogen compounds plants can use to make proteins
Coral body layers - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅-epidermis
-mesoglea
-endodermis
Coral bleaching - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Zooxanthellae becomes stressed when water
temperature is troo high and are expelled from coral tissue. Coral dies due to lack of
oxygen and food, and turns white.
-Water temperatures go up because of El Nino and global warming
Predators to coral - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Parrotfish, crown of thorns sea star
El Nino - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Current and wind patterns throw things off course
-heat in ocean
-every seven years
eutophication - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅the buildup over time of nutrients in freshwater that
leads to an increase in growth of algae
Atoll - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅-ring shaped reef
-form above undersea voncanic mountains that have collapsed
-susceptible to wave action
-susceptible to predidation
-not as susceptible to human damage
-Example: indio-west pacific
