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Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Coastal Classroom
The Sargasso Sea Quiz
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    Key Vocabulary

    • Endemic - native and restricted to a certain place

    • Sargassum - a brown seaweed with berrylike air bladders, typically forming large floating masses

    • Holopelagic –  something that remains pelagic through the entire life cycle.

    • Gyre - a circular pattern of currents in an ocean basin.

    • Biodiversity - the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

    • Pelagic – relating to the open ocean

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    Sargassum does NOT grow attached to the sea floor! It is one of the world's only holopelagic seaweeds - spending it's time floating in the water, rather than anchored down. Sargassum mats are important for marine animals and even have ten species considered endemic to this unique habitat! Image: https://www.thegef.org/news/communities-innovate-address-sargassum-seaweed-coasts-saint-lucia
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    Image: https://www.natureplprints.com/hidden-nature/sargassum-fish-histrio-histrio-15279899.html
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    "The Sargasso Sea is a fundamentally important part of the world’s ocean, located within the North Atlantic sub-tropical gyre with its boundaries defined by the surrounding currents. It is the only sea without land boundaries with water depths ranging from the surface coral reefs of Bermuda to abyssal plains at 4500 m." (Source) Image Below: http://www.sargassoseacommission.org/storage/documents/Sargasso.Report.9.12.pdf
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    Photo credit: David Curnick
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    Image: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/19/world/microplastics-sargasso-sea-north-atlantic-intl/index.html
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