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Water running up beach. Deposits particles
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Swash
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Water flowing down beach. Removes particles
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Backwash
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Gentle swash. Gentle slope, maximal erosion. Fine sediment
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Dissipative Beach
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Large swash. Steep slope, swash and backwash collide. Coarse sediment
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Reflective Beach
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Particulate organic matter not easily digested, inadequate cellulose enzyme activity. Microbial organisms main source of nutrition
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Microbial Stripping Hypothesis
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Where are tropical seas located?
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Between the Tropic of Cancer (23o 27'N) and Tropic of Capricorn (23o 27'S)
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Mangrove located in the low intertidal zone with prop roots.
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Red Mangrove (Rizaphora Mangle)
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Mangrove in the mid-intertidal zone with pneumatophores.
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Black Mangrove (Avicennia Germinans)
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Branches sticking into air from horizontal roots; allows oxygen uptake
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Pnuematophores
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Mangroves above the high tide line with lenticels.
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White Mangroves (Luguncularia Racemosa)
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Openings in lower trunk, allow oxygen in
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Lenticels
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Reef building corals, have symbiosis with algae
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Hermatypic
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Non-reef building corals, no symbiosis with algae.
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Ahermatypic
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Parent poly divides
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Intratentacular Budding
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Daughter polyps form on side of parent polyp
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Extratentacular Budding
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Mound shaped corals and irregular; linear growth <1 cm per year
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Massive
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Tree branch forms of corals and elk horn shapes; linear growth 10-20 cm per year
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Branching
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Growth and fragmentation
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Asexual
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Male and female gonads on same colony
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Hermaphroditism
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Separate sexes
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Dioecy
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Male and female gonads present at same time
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Simultaneous
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Male and female gonads separated temporally
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Sequential
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Sperm only broadcast. Internal fertilization. Development to planula in polyp
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Brooders
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Synchrous release of sperm and eggs. External fertilization. Development to planula and plankton
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Broadcasters
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A reef where corals are close to shore in shallow water and are common in the Caribbean
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Fringing Reefs
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A reef that is separated from mainland by lagoon channel. Island sinks or sea level rises over geologic time. Not common in the Caribbean except Belize.
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Barrier Reefs
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A spherical shaped reef, surround shallow lagoon. Islands sink or sea level rises until island below ocean surface. Most common in western Pacific
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Atoll Reefs
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