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Exam 3 Crossword

Across
An estuary formed when sand bars build up on the coast line
How Hexacorallia corals typically reproduce (asexually)
Type of tissue found in many aquatic plants that has very large air spaces
Most common and simplest type of reef
Non-reef building corals
Reef building corals
A chain of islands formed of coral, a ring shaped reef
When new individual polyps join a colony by budding or fission
Type of substrate that makes up most estuaries
Species of mangroves that occur on the seaward side, have glossy green leaves and prop roots
Organism with narrow range of salinity tolerance
Organisms that start as a female, then change to male
Valleys cut deeper by glaciers and then invaded by the sea
Order of reef building corals
The way most marine inverts deal with varying levels of salt
Type of estuary created as sedimentary deposits gather at the mouth of a river
Longest Fringe Reef system in the world
Down
Coastal area exceptionally important for migratory birds
Internal fertilization process in corals
Small pore in tree bark that allows for gas exchange
Organisms with broad salt tolerance
Entire mangrove forest
Plant species that is very salt tolerant, and sequesters salt at the tips
How Rhizophora deal with excess salt
Family that Black mangroves belong to
Type of reef that grows in protected lagoons
Freshwater fish that travel to ocean to breed
Type of estuary that formed as river valley were filled with sea water when ice melted and sea levels rose
Process where drifting planula larvae settle, attach and establish themselves in a coral community
85% of sand comes from ____
When the female reproductive organs come to maturity before the male
Marine fish species that breed in rivers
Estuaries are heavily influenced by daily _____
Zone of estuary with the lowest salinity and largest substrate size