Examples of . . .
What is . . .
Sewage
Effects on Coral Reefs
Finding Nemo
100

a gastropod

What is a snail, an abalone, a limpet or a nudibranch?

100

Excessive algal growth as a result of increased nutritent input

What is eutrophication?
100

Sewage starts out as this

What is wastewater?

100

Algal blooms are harmful to coral reefs because they do this.

What is block the sunlight?

100

Nemo is this kind of fish

What is a clownfish?

200

a cephalopod

What is an octopus, a squid or a cuttlefish?

200

The increasing concentration of a substance from one trophic level to the next

What is biomagnification?

200

Sewage could be divided into these two categories

What is raw and treated sewage?

200

This dynamic method of fishing can severely damage coral reefs

What is using explosives (to stun the fish)?

200

Nemo's species has a symbiotic relationship with these organisms.

What are sea anenomes?

300
an echinoderm

What is a starfish, an urchin, a sea cucumber or a sea lily?

300
An organism that lives attached to an underwater surface, causing negative effects to ships and pilings

What is a fouling organism?

300

Sludge is this.

What is the solids in wastewater with the water removed?

300

Uninformed divers can inadvertently harm coral reefs by searching for these

What are souvenirs?

300

Nemo ended up in this kind of an office

What is a dentist's office?

400

a chlorinated hydrocarbon

What is DDT or PCBs?

400

A continuous chain of underwater volcanic mountains encompassing the earth

What is a mid-ocean ridge?

400

This is why some communities pump their sludge into marshes

What is the fact that marsh bacteria can break it down nicely?

400

When coral reefs feel stressed they part company with these bffs

What are zooxanthellae?

400

Dory is this kind of fish.

What is a blue tang?
500

a cetacean

What is a humpback whale, a dolphin or a porpoise?

500

Bands of muscle along the sides of fishes used for locomotion

What are myomeres?

500

This expensive way to treat sewage results in no harm to the environment.

What is using ozone or UV radiation?

500

Most scientists say that this condition causes stress to coral reefs even though there is no supporting data.

What is global warming?

500

Bruce is this kind of fish

What is a (great white) shark?