Archive for the 'Algae (Seaweeds)' Category
Agar is a form of red algae. It can be used as the agar gel that lines the bottom of scientists petri dishes. Agar is also a stabilizer for some foods, including ice cream (not Breyers’). It is also a stabilizer in cosmetics and paint.
Carrageen, from a red algae called Irish moss, is also used [...]
Rest assure those crab shells are simply that – shells. Crabs (of all kinds – blue. lady, horseshoe) go through a molting phase and the old shell is basically washed up in the wrack line.
The wrack line is that line of seemingly dead seaweed that entangles lots of fun ocean treasures such as sea beans, [...]
Coral bleaching is due to the fact that the algae part of the coral reef ecosystem can no longer photosynthesize properly – therfore, losing the “reef” structure and the corals remain white – since the zooxannthellea are not around (that’s the algae – and responsible for the color of the coral). This occurs due to [...]
Interesting question.
The top three largest coral reef ecosystems in the world are:
1) Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia
2) Belize Barrier Reef
3) Florida Keys Reef Ecosystem
A coral reef ecosystem relies on teamwork between the coral animal (a type of cnidarians) and an algae called zooxannthellea.
Actually seaweed is a term given too many different types of marine plants that grow in the ocean and none of them are weeds, in the sense that we would try to get rid up them with a weed killer.
The basic scientific term would really be algae. Algae (Red, brown, or green) are a very [...]
