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Environmental Studies
Undergraduate 3
12/07/2010

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Inundated
Definition
Covered with water, causes a problem for plants because lack of oxygen, as well as ammonium and ethonal building up.
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SAV 8==D
Definition
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
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Sea Grass
Definition
Marine Flowering Plants, Phylum Anthophyta Class Monocotyledoneae Order Helobiae
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Cymodoceaceae
Definition
Sholl/Manitee Grass
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Hydra Charitaceae
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Turtle Grass
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Ruppiaceae
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Widgen Grass
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Zosteraceae
Definition
Eel grass/ surf grass
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Higher Plants
Definition
Seperate Conducting Tissues, Distinct leaves, stems, roots, and flowers.
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Leaf
Definition
Epidermus, mesophyl (spongy and palisade), vascular tissue
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Stem
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Not woody, typically underground (rhyzome)
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Root
Definition
Primary root (radicle), adventicious
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Flowers
Definition
Angiosperm (ovules are enclosed during development)
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Biofouling
Definition
When epiphytes grow on sea grass and block sunlight from reaching them
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Tannins & Phenolic Compounds
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Anti Herbivore and anti biofouling compounds that sea grasses use.
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Red field ratio
Definition
ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus Nitrogen is limited
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Cnidae
Definition
Part of jellyfish that stings
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Cnidoblasts
Definition
Cells that hold cnidae 8==D
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Diploblastic
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Two tissue layers (ectoderm and endoderm)
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Cnidaria
Definition
Corals, jellyfish, anemone
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Epiderm
Definition
Calcium Producing
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Gastroderm
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Zooxanthellae
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Zooxanthele
Definition
Breaks down stuff in gastroderm. Seperate organism
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Scyphozon 8=====D
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True Jelly fish
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Cubozoa
Definition
Box Jelly Fish 8====D
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Hydrozoa
Definition
Hydroids fire coral lace coral
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Anthozoa
Definition
sea anemones and corals
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Hermatypic
Definition
Reef Building ; ) corals that deposit calcium carbonate
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Subsidence Theory
Definition
Created by Darwin; reefs go from fringing reefs to barrier reefs to atolls
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8========D
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; )
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Branching coral
Definition
Grow vertical to shade out other coral
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Massive-mounding Coral
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Between branching and plate corals
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Plate corals : (
Definition
Grow horizontally to get the most sunlight
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CGJ Peterson
Definition
He found that there were similar communities in different areas
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Functional Groups
Definition
Sediment stabilizers and sediment destabilizers
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