Much of the world’s blue carbon is reserved within these organisms, which nucleate important marine ecosystems home to rockfish and sea otters. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these massive brown algae that form underwater forests.
ANSWER: kelp [or kelp forests; prompt on seaweed]
[10m] Since 2011, Floridians have bemoaned the deluge of dead kelp belonging to this genus washing up on beaches. This genus also lends its name to an ecologically important region of the Atlantic Ocean where the kelp accumulates; name either.
ANSWER: Sargassum [or the Sargasso Sea]
[10h] Zoologists believe the Sargasso Sea is the site of this mysterious process, which has astoundingly never been observed outside captivity. It is the last phase in the life cycle of a catadromous animal.
ANSWER: (European) eel reproduction [or eel spawning; or eel breeding; or eel sex; prompt on reproduction or spawning or breeding or sex by asking, “Of what animal?”; prompt on similar answers that only mention fish]
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