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| Any of numerous radially symmetrical marine invertebrates of the phylum Echinodermata, which includes the starfishes, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers, having an internal calcareous skeleton and often covered with spines. |
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Filter feeding, pore-bearing animals being studied for potential drugs and medicines |
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| prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens |
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| a genus of dinoflagellates including one (Pfiesteria piscicida) found in waters especially along the middle and southern Atlantic coast of the U.S. that produces a toxin which causes skin lesions in fish, that feeds upon the lesions sometimes causing large fish die-offs, and that may cause symptoms (as skin lesions and memory loss) in humans exposed to the toxin |
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| Plankton that remains free-swimming through all stages of its life cycle. |
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| probably the most abundant plankton; ultraplankton |
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| octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish |
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| An economically valuable gastropod used for food |
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| Most dinoflagelates are unicellular forms (mostly plankton) with two dissimilar flagella. Some bioluminescent (Noctiluca). Pfiesteria - red tide |
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| blue-green algae, photosynthetic bacteria that contain chlorophyll |
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| have a nuclear wall, one-celled, also includes multi-celled algae |
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| abundant phytoplankton, has a glassy shell 2 halves, reproduction by fission about 1x per day, highly efficient at photosynthesis |
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| Multi-Celled Algae; no true roots or stems. Classified by colors. |
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| 200' long, grows 20' a day. Harvested for Algin. Attacked by sea urchins, saved by otters |
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| A symbiotic relationship between two organisms of different species in which one derives some benefit while the other is unaffected. (Sea slug and the Pearl Fish) |
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| Most dangerours Cnidarian |
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| Molts their exoskeltons; includes barnacles. |
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| Mollusks that have two shells. Primarily filter feeders |
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| the class of vertebrates comprising the lampreys, hagfishes, and several extinct forms, having no jaws or no paired appendages. |
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| Largest fish; no swim bladders. |
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| All organsims that have a backbone (vertebrates) |
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| Bottom feeders; spending the majority of their time on the sea floor |
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| The order of mammals that includes the manatees |
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| mammals with limbs adapted to an aquatic life, including the seals and walruses. |
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| largest whales (Baleen Whales) |
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| the class comprising the bony fishes. |
with swim bladders |
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| A type of algae that lives in a mutualistic relationship with coral polyps |
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| The cone snail or cone shell may be the most dangerous form of this. Any of various mollusks of the class Gastropoda, such as the snail, slug, cowrie, or limpet, characteristically having a single, usually coiled shell or no shell at all, a ventral muscular foot for locomotion, and eyes and feelers located on a distinct head. |
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| What organism causes red tide? |
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| Most turtle nests in Brevard Co.? |
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| Most dangerous Cephalopod |
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| Sponge, coral, kelp are classified as being what? |
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| Name three Sea Turtle problems |
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| plastic bags, lights, warts, boats, |
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| Gastropods and Cephalopods have what kind if mouth? |
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| Radula; set with numerous, minute, horny teeth |
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| Relationship in which one benefits and the other neither benefits or is harmed |
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| expels it's breathing aparatus |
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