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What trees act as nurseries for young reef fish?

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  1. 1 Easy

    Which Indo-Pacific fish has invaded Caribbean reefs?

    Answer: Lionfish

    Why: In the Caribbean, a single female lionfish can spawn more than 2 million eggs a year.

  2. 2 Medium

    Which material makes up most of the Maldives' islands?

    Answer: Coral sand

    Why: On the Maldives' Huvadhu Atoll, coral fragments make up about 77% of the islands' sediment.

  3. 3 Hard

    Whose 1983 mass die-off let algae smother Caribbean reefs?

    Answer: Sea urchins

    Why: More than 97% of these long-spined urchins died, in waters reaching from the Bahamas to South America.

  4. 4 Easy

    What is a coral?

    Answer: An animal

    Why: Corals stay fixed to the seafloor like plants, but unlike plants they cannot make their own food.

  5. 5 Medium

    Where do reef-building corals get most of their food?

    Answer: From their algae

    Why: The algae living in coral tissue pass on up to 90% of the food they make from sunlight.

  6. 6 Hard

    Which ocean region has the world's greatest variety of reef life?

    Answer: Coral Triangle

    Why: The Coral Triangle holds more than three-quarters of the world's reef-building coral species, across the seas of six countries.

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