What is a kelp forest?

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Answer 1

Kelp is a brown seaweed that has a long narrow "trunk" and on top of this a frondlike piece.   It's anchored to the sea floor with kind of roots that hold onto rocks and the plant reaches toward the surface except when currents pust them around.   They can grow over 50 feet long.

Answer 2

Almost everyone who answered is partially right. A kelp forest is a slang term. A more accurate term is "kelp bed," but the forest analogy is pretty good. Kelps (a brown macroalgae) are often the dominant algae, and the unique and complex ecology of a kelp-dominated bed supports a varied and highly diverse biological complex of organisms. The beds themselves are principally limited by geologic and physical limits (water depth and substrate), and are an excellent refugia for juvenile fish, shellfish and both predator and prey species.

Just like a terrestrial forest, the algae come and go, supporting everything else.

Answer 3

an ocean plant that takes on large proportions and grows as a group

a ring of kelp that roughly borders the pacific fault boundry though to be one of the ways man made it to North america

Answer 4

An ocean plant cald kelp, like seaweed and ect....... a kelp forsest is a very large cluster of kelp, as in there might be kelp kelp kelp everywhere you look a kelp forest, like a regular forest would be tree tree tree wherever you look. hope this helps!

Answer 5

A forest of Kelp? Hey Im just guessin

Answer 6

A kelp forest is a forest full of kelp.DUH!

Answer 7

Seaweed!