Restoring Florida's Coral Reefs

Florida Keys reef is which type of reef system?

• Barrier

• Fringing

• Atoll

Have you visited the Florida Keys?

• Yes

• No

What is the type of nursery system did they develop for this Florida Keys restoration project?

• Coral trees

• Coral reef balls

• Reef platforms

• Steel frames

What is the goal of this project?

• To grow new corals in a nursery and then plant them in areas they are trying to restore

• To grow new corals in a nursery and then sell them to people for their aquariums

• To grow new corals in a nursery to replace current corals

• To grow new corals in a nursery to to stop climate change

How many corals are they trying to place in a given day?

• 50-100

• 100-800

• 500-1,000

What does it mean that they corals are clones of their neighbors?

• They are placed closely to one another

• They are genetic copies of one another

• They are closely related to each other

• They came from the same nursery

What are they trying to promote?

• genetic diversity on the reef site

• decrease the amount of fish

• increased amount of coral bleaching

• increase in the amount of one type of coral on the reef site.

What are the two main pressures on coral reefs? (think back to the first video you watched today)

• Increasing water temperature and acidification

• Decreasing water temperature and acidification

• Plastic pollution and increasing water temperature

• Hunting of fish species and decrease in water temperature

What percentage of the coral reefs have declined worldwide?

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%

What percentage of coral reefs do we have remaining in Florida?

• 50%

• 2%

• 100%

• 10%