Coral Bleaching

What can YOU do to help coral bleaching?

• Use more plastic products

• Ignore sustainable seafood practices

• Keep coral bleaching a secret

• Reduce carbon footprint, support sustainable seafood practices, spread awareness

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What is ONE coral reef where coral bleaching occurs?

• Caribbean Sea Reef

• Red Sea Coral Reef

• Pacific Ocean Reef

• Great Barrier Reef

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What is the main cause for coral bleaching?

• Bleach

• Climate change

• Dead fish

• None, coral bleaches itself to get a new color.

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Why does coral bleach?

• Because of oil spills.

• Because it is in the shade and sunlight makes it have color.

• Because fish eat the outside of it and the inside is not colorful.

• Because The temperature cause the coral to shake off its algae.

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What is coral bleaching?

• When the sun heats up the water and the coral cannot withstand the high temperatures

• When people throw bleach into the ocean

• When a type of fish eats away at the coral, making it looked bleached.

• When the coral naturally dies,

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What is the primary cause of coral bleaching?

• The temperature at a coral reef becomes higher than the zooxanthellae can handle and they begin to exit or die in the coral

• When people throw bleach into the ocean

• When a type of fish eats away at the coral calcium carbonate skeleton, making it looked bleached

• When the coral naturally dies from an increase in salinity carried by currents

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What is the main cause of coral bleaching?

• Higher ocean temperatures

• Not enough carbon dioxide is dissolved in ocean water

• Whales chewing on coral reefs

• Too much sunlight

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When corals begin to die (or bleach) do they usually come back?

• Yes

• No

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True or False: 75% of reefs have experienced a rise in temperature that causes severe bleaching.

• False

• True

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What is the cause of coral bleaching.

• Space Heaters

• Pollution

• Hot air

• Global Warming

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