Marine Flowering Plants
1.
What is another name for flowering plants?
2.
What is the only true marine flowering plant?
3.
How many species of flowering plants are there?
4. By definition what is a seagrass AND how do we know that it evolved from land
plants?
5. List 5 examples of common seagrasses.
6. How many species of seagrasses are known? Which is the most widely distributed?
7. Tell me three ways that seagrasses have adapted to life in the marine environment.
8. How is the pollen for marine plants different then that of terrestrial plants?
9. How are the seeds of these seagrasses dispersed?
10. What are cordgrasses and how do they differ from seagrasses?
11. What is another name for salt-tolerant plants? How do these plants survive if they
do become submerged in seawater?
12. What exactly is a mangrove AND how many species receive the name of mangrove?
13. List 2 characteristics of a mangrove.
14. List 2 adaptations that plants in a mangrove have taken on.