Coral Bleaching/ Coral Reefs

                                 Video #1

1. What is a polyp? What does a polyp need to be concidered "coral"?
    -Polyp is the begining stages of coral. Hundreds of coral are needed for one coral.
2. What types of things are coral senitive to in the ocean?
     -Coral is extreamly sensative to climate change.
3. When does coral bleaching occur?
     -The coral bleaching occurs when the water stays warm for too long.
4. Why do scientists think that bleaching is occuring more now than ever?
     -Bleaching is happening now more due to climante change.
5. List three ways people can reduce their impact to climate change?
    -Three ways we can help are turning off lights, avoiding car journys, and recycling.


                          Video #2

1. How many species of : fish, hard coral, soft coral, sea brids, shore birds?
     -The reef has 1,500 speicies of fish, 360 hard corral,  one third of the worlds soft corral with 22 sea bird speicies and 32 shore birds.
 2.  What is responsible for warming our oceans?
     -Climate change is warming our oceans.
3. How does increased flooding affect the reefs and the fish and birds that live there?
     -Flooding causes fish to swim off to colder waters and causes birds to have less food.
4. List three additional ways (not listed above) that people can reduce climate change?
      -Dry clothes on the line, use public transportation, and open windows instead of air conditioners.

                        Video #3/4

1. Two reasons why we should use media to share this information is so that kids start doing theese things and so that everyone does these things not just people around trouble areas.  Downsides are that not everyone has accses to the media.