What is locally caught fish and imported rice? Bonus: Less than 5% of the land is fit for farming.
100
Corals can be both . . .
What is hard and soft? Fun Fact: Though they look like plants, corals are acually animals.
100
What are the main native land mammals on Maldives?
What is bats?
100
Scientists predict the water levels will rise how much in 40 years?
What is 9-15 inches (24 to 38 centimeters)
(Some islands are already sinking and could be completely flooded with an increase of a few centimeters)
200
About how many species of plants are there?
What is 600? Bonus: Less than 260 non-native plant species grow in the wild.
200
How many species of shells does Maldives have?
What is 5,000 different species?
200
How did the black rat, the house mouse, and the Indian house shrew get to Maldives?
What is ships?
200
What is the greatest immediate ecological problem?
What is coral mining?
300
What are 3 ways that Maldivians use coconuts?
What is the milk is used for drinking and cooking, the pulp is used to make curries and cakes, the fibres are turned into coir, the sap is boiled to make a type of syrup, the fronds are woven into cadjin for roofs, mats, and walls, the trunk providess wood for boats and houses and the leftovers are used as firewood?
300
How do ambush predators get their food?
What is they hide, blending into the shadows until a shrimp or fish comes along an they chomp it up before the fish even knows whats happening?
300
What are Maldives' 5 species of marine turtles?
What is the leatherback, the loggerhead, the green, the hawksbill, the olive Ridley?
300
What is the greatest long-term threat to Maldives?
What is global warming?
400
About how high do the constant trees (kaani, uni, and dhiggaa) normally grow?
What is rarely more than 16 ft. (5 meters) high and often intwined with climbers?
400
What is the most impotant example of symbiosis in the reef?
What is the symbiosis between the algae and the hard corals? Bonus: The coral uses the oxygen and nutrient compounds from the algae and the algae feeds on the waste from the coral.
400
Name 5 land birds that live in Maldives year-round.
What is the Indian house crow, the koel bird, the rose-ringed parakeet, the house sparrow, the white-breasted water hen and the kestrel?
400
What are 3 endangered species in Maldives?
What is turtles, black coral, sea cucumbers, lobsters and skipjack and yellowfin tuna?
500
List at least 10 of the main foods grown in Maldives.
What is sweet potato, chillies,small onions, watermelon, pineapple, breadfruit, banana, limes, oranges, betel, and coconut.
500
How does the parrotfish's diet affect Maldives?
What is they feed on thin layers of algae and coral rock and after digesting, they excrete puffs of coral sand, which is what the islands are mainly made up of.
(don't need full answer to be correct)
500
When do Hawksbill turtles lay their eggs?
What is June through November?
500
What harmful things do crown-of thorns' do?
What is feeds on reef-building corrals and can reach plague porportions?