1. Marine Biology Outcome:
Review the importance of plankton in respect to food webs.
Gain knowledge on the types of marine plants that exist.
Complete worksheets on Marine Plants.
Study for next class… start with today… Questions/Comments/Concerns

2. Marine Plants There are four categories of marine plants: marine algae
sea grasses
marsh grass
mangroves
Marine Plants provide habitats for many marine creatures including shrimp, bivalves, fish, plankton, and other small organisms.

3. Microscopic Algae There are three types of algae that exist:
Green Algae
Brown Algae
Red Algae

4. Sea Grasses
Seagrasses are grass-like flowering plants that live completely submerged in marine and estuarine waters.
Seagrasses require lots of light, so the depths at which they occur in the ocean are limited by light availability.

5. Sea Grasses

6. Marsh Grasses
Marsh grasses are soft- stem, coarse plants that have adapted to thrive in soil that is continuously saturated.
Marshes can live in either saltwater or freshwater wetlands.

8. Mangrove
Mangrove trees are able to survive in high salt concentrations by excluding some salt at the root level.
Mangrove trees can tolerate salt in quantities that would kill other plants because of their raised roots.

9. Mangrove Tree

10. Mangrove Tree

11. Marine Kelp (Brown Algae)
Type of brown algae
Grows from 10 inches up to 2 feet a day
Structure
Blade: absorbs light to photosynthesize
Gas Bubble: helps structure to float
Stipe: Stem like structure, support
Frond: The blade, gas bubble, and stipe together
Holdfast: Root like strutcure that holds the kelp in place

12. Marine Kelp (Brown Algae)

13. Kelp Forest

14. Make sure to look over: Levels of the Oceanic Zone
Epi, Meso, Bathyl, Abbysal, and Hadal
Plankton (Phyto and Zoo)
Types we looked at last class
Differences between them
Food chains and food webs
How they work
Each level of the food pyramid (and if one was removed)
Creating one from a reading
QUIZ NEXT CLASS!!!
9.22 (Adays)
9.23 (Bdays)