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Red tide is a common name for a phenomenon also known as an algal bloom (large concentrations of aquatic microorganisms) , an event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column and results in discoloration of the surface water. It is usually found in coastal areas.
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What are algal blooms that cause red tide caused from?
Red tide is produced when red algae is reproducing
Which protist causes red tide?
dinoflagellates tint the sea water to a reddish color.
Red sea is named after the algal bloom of what?
pyrrhophyta
What produce red tide?
Garbage that pollute the water forms are the producers of red tide.
How do you not get red tide?
Because dinoflagellate form red tide at the bottom of the sea.[fatima]
What causes red tide?
Algal can cause "red tides". Specifically algal blooms.
What are algal blooms that cause red tide caused from?
Red tide is produced when red algae is reproducing
How are algal blooms and red tides similar?
Because they are almost exactly the same thing. ---------------- They ARE the same thing. A red tide is a type of algal bloom that occurs in the water with red algae.
What has the author Donald M Anderson written?
Donald M. Anderson has written: 'Calligraphy' -- subject(s): Calligraphy 'Elements of design' -- subject(s): Art, Design 'Estimated annual economic impacts from harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States' -- subject(s): Algal blooms, Brown tide, Economic aspects of Algal blooms, Monitoring, Red tide
What are some signs of red tide?
Red tide is caused by Algal blooms- During which, algae becomes so numerous and it may deplete oxygen and emit toxins into the air. different species in the water causes a discoloration.
What are salt water algal blooms called?
red tides maybe?
What has the author Jianzong He written?
Jianzong He has written: 'He shuo hong chao' -- subject(s): Control, Toxic algae, Red tide, Monitoring, Algal blooms, Toxic marine algae
What is a area in which addition of an abundance of limiting nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus causes an algal bloom blocking sunlight and causing the death of organisms below?
Red tide is an example. When severe enough they become harmful algal blooms which do damage to life beneath them in the water column.
An algal bloom of dinoflagellates that causes fish kills is called?
Red tide?
Does the moon's gravity have anything to do with red tide?
Red Tide is a term that refer to Algae blooms of toxic phytoplankton, it has nothing to do with the ocean tide or the moon's gravity.
What organism causes red tide when found in large numbers?
Dinoflagellate blooms
What are inorganic toxic substances sometimes found in water supplies?
salts and lead red tiles fecal coliform bacteria algal blooms
