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