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1. What is a coral reef?
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a. An underwater community of plants and animals |
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2. Where are coral reefs found in the world? |
a. In tropical areas around the equator |
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3. Which parts of the world have coral reefs? |
a. Africa b. Asia c. Australia d. The Caribbean |
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4. Which continent has the most coral reefs? |
a. South East Asia |
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5. Where is the world’s largest coral reef? |
a. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia |
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6. What is happening to the number of healthy coral reefs in the world? |
a. Falling |
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7. What percentage of reefs were covered in coral in 1980? |
a. 48% |
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8. What percentage of reefs were covered in coral in 1990? |
a. 27% |
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9. What percentage of coral reefs are threatened by human activity? |
a. 75% |
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10. How does overfishing damage coral reefs? |
a. Dynamite kills fish and reefs |
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11. How does pollution and waste disposal from land damage coral reefs? |
a. Chemicals pollute the water b. Eutrophication kills coral and fish |
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12. What is eutrophication? |
a. When chemicals cause more algae to grow |
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13. How does pollution and waste disposal from the sea damage coral reefs? |
a. Oil and waste from ships skills fish and coral |
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14. How does tourism damage coral reefs? |
a. Coral dies when people stand on it |
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15. What is coastal development? |
a. Building more houses near the sea |
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16. How does coastal development damage coral reefs? |
a. More waste and pollution from buildings |
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17. What is a food web? |
a. The relationship between different species in an ecosystem |
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18. What is sustainability? |
a. Using things in a way which is good for people and the environment now and in the future |
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19. What is overfishing? |
a. Taking too many fish from the sea |
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20. Why is overfishing unsustainable? |
a. Other species die because of a lack of food |
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21. What happens if too many fish are taken? |
a. Fish and plants become extinct |
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22. What is siltation? |
a. When sediment runs into the water and makes it cloudy |
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23. What happens when the water has too much silt in it? |
a. There is a lack of sunlight |
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24. What happens to the food web when there is a lack of sunlight? |
a. Fish and plants die |
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25. How could global warming affect the temperature of the oceans? |
a. 3 degree increase |
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26. How could global warming affect the weather of the oceans? |
a. More extreme weather |
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27. What could happen to coastal erosion if sea levels rise? |
a. Increase |
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28. What happens to algae on coral if the temperature rises? |
a. They die |
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29. What is it called when the algae die and the coral turns white? |
a. Coral bleaching |
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30. What is species migration? |
a. When fish move to different waters because theirs are too warm |
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31. What would happen to cod if the North Sea became 1 degree warmer? |
a. They would move north |
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32. What has happened to the amount of fish caught in the world since 2000? |
a. Decreased |
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33. Why might the amount of fish caught have decreased? |
a. Because there are less fish in the seas |
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34. Why do people want to use marine ecosystems more? |
a. Populations are growing b. People want more resources |
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35. Which resources do people want from the oceans? |
a. Fish b. Using coral reefs for tourism |
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36. Which part of the world is St Lucia in? |
a. The Caribbean |
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37. How much is the population of St Lucia growing? |
a. 2% per year |
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38. Which fishing methods damage the coral reef? |
a. Placing pots on coral reefs b. Chasing fish into nets |
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39. How is the tourist industry damaging the coral reefs? |
a. Waste flows into the sea |
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40. How much of St Lucia’s money comes from tourism? |
a. Almost 50% |
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41. Which tourist activities could damage the coral? |
a. Snorkelling b. Diving c. Sailing |
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42. What percentage of the people are poor? |
a. 20% |
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43. How do poor people use mangroves for? |
a. Charcoal |
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44. What do poor people get from the sea? |
a. Fish |
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45. What are forests cut down for? |
a. Banana plantations |
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46. How do banana plantations damage the reef? |
a. Siltation |
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47. Who were the conflicts between on the Soufriere coral reef? |
a. Fishermen and tourists |
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48. What was being dumped in the Mankote mangrove swamp? |
a. Rubbish |
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49. Why was insecticide being used in the Mankote mangrove swamp? |
a. to kill mosquitoes |
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50. What do local people get from the Mankote mangrove swamp? |
a. Fish b. Charcoal c. Honey |
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51. What is participatory planning? |
a. When everyone is involved in solving the problems on the reef |
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52. What is a stakeholder? |
a. Someone who uses the reef |
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53. What was given to the fishermen in Soufriere? |
a. Modern boats |
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54. What was planted for the people in Mankote to get fuel? |
a. A woodlot |
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55. What was encouraged to increase income? |
a. Ecotourism |
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56. What is ecotourism? |
a. Attracting tourists to have environmentally friendly holidays |
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57. What is the aim of Sourfriere Marine Management Area? |
a. Get people work together to preserve the reef |
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58. What were the different areas / zones along the coast? |
a. Marine reserves b. Fishing priority areas c. Recreational areas d. Multiple use areas e. Sailing boat mooring sites |
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59. Why has tourism become an issue? |
a. Too many tourists |
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60. What has been the effect of the growing population of Soufriere? |
a. More pollution in the water |
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61. What has happened to the numbers of fish? |
a. Increased |
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62. What has happened to the numbers of fish species? |
a. Increased |
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63. What has happened to the number of stakeholders involved in managing the reef? |
a. Increased |
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1. Where is the North Sea? |
a. East of the UK |
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2. Which organisation is in charge of managing the amount of fish in the North Sea? |
a. The EU |
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3. What do fishermen want to do? |
a. Catch as many fish as possible |
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4. What do conservations want to do? |
a. Save endangered fish species |
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5. What does the EU pay fishermen to do? |
a. Not catch fish |
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6. Which species of fish is endangered? |
a. Cod |
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7. How do bigger holes in nets save fish? |
a. Younger fish do not get caught |
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8. How does limiting the number of hours fishing boats can work save fish? |
a. It means less fish get caught |
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9. What is a marine reserve? |
a. A place where no fishing is allowed |
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10. Why do we have marine reserves? |
a. To protect plants and animals within the ecosystem |
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11. What is MARPOL? |
a. The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships |
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12. What is MARPOL for? |
a. To stop ships polluting the oceans |
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13. How many countries have signed up to MARPOL? |
a. 152 |
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14. How many oil spills were there each year in the 1970s? |
a. 25 |
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15. How many are there now (since MARPOL)? |
a. 2.5 |
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16. How much oil was spilled per year before MARPOL? |
a. 400000 tonnes |
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17. How much oil is spilled now (since MARPOL)? |
a. 50000 tonnes |
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18. How much of the ocean is marine protected areas? |
a. 1% |
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19. How much would the UN like to be marine protected areas? |
a. 10% |
