Vocab Quiz 5

Question 1

Branching Form

Answer 1

Branching corals are characterized by having numerous branches, usually with secondary branches. Acropora is an example.

Question 2

Coral Bleaching

Answer 2

The expulsion of zooxanthellae from corals, resulting in coral tissue losing its color and appearing to be the white color of the coral skeleton beneath the living tissue

Question 3

Coral Triangle

Answer 3

marine area located in the western Pacific Ocean. Named for its staggering number of corals, the region nurtures six of the world’s seven marine turtle species and more than 2000 species of reef fish.

Question 4

Coralline algae

Answer 4

Red algae that secrete a skeleton of calcium carbonate

Question 5

Massive Form

Answer 5

Massive corals are characteristically ball- or boulder-shaped and relatively slow-growing.

Question 6

Sedimentation

Answer 6

deposition of particles and chemical precipitation to form deposits in water

Question 7

Sibling species

Answer 7

closely related species that are so similar that they are nearly indistinguishable morphologically

Question 8

Turbidity

Answer 8

the weight of particulate matter per unit volume of seawater

Question 9

White Band Disease

Answer 9

coral disease, perhaps caused by bacterium, that results in an advancing white band in the colony

Question 10

White plague

Answer 10

a complex scleractinian coral disease, sometimes associated with a coccoid bacterium

Question 11

White pox disease

Answer 11

x

Question 12

Yellow Band disease

Answer 12

x

Question 13

Zooxanthellea

Answer 13

a group of dinoflagellates living endosymbiotically in association with one of a variety of invertebrate groups

Question 14

Lagoon

Answer 14

a stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef