Coral reef vocab quiz

A member of the anthozoan class of cnidarians

• coral

• sponge

• reef

• sessile

A member of the phylum Porifera

• Jellyfish

• Sea Anemone

• sponge

• Budding

An underwater structure made from the bodies or coral or other animals

• sessile

• budding

• Symbiosis

• reef

A diagram showing the energy and feeding relationships in an ecosystem

• food web

• heterorophic

• polyp

• symbiosis

whitening of coral that results from the loss of a coral’s symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) or the degradation of the algae’s photosynthetic pigment

• decomposition

• coral Bleaching

• budding

• fragmentation

nonmoving stays in place

• motile

• medussa

• sessile

• pelagic

A type of asexual reproduction in some sponges and cnidarians

• zygote

• gastrula

• budding

• deuterostome

When two organisms live closely together

• cooperation

• Symbiotic

• parasitic

• budding

a Body shape of cnidarians that is like a tree with tentacles up

• pelagic

• medussa

• polyp

• larva

A phylum of "stinging cell organisms" including Jellyfish and sea anemone

• porifera

• medussa

• Cnidaria

• symbiosis