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Explore the Great Barrier
Reef!
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Quiz
Section 3
Environment
 The students will be sitting in a quiet computer lab with
headphones to be able to hear audio from the video.
The students will work on this individually.
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Learners
 The students who will view the lesson will be 8th grade
students who are in a geography and world history class.
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Objective
 After the completion of this program, students will be able
to describe the different types of coral that make up the
Great Barrier Reef, identify different species of animals that
use the reef as a habitat, and explain what affects the
environment has on the Great Barrier Reef through the
completion of a quiz with 100% accuracy.
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Orientation
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven Natural
Wonders of the World, and you may have seen pictures
or seen it in a movie, but now it is time to learn what it
is.
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Motivation
 Facts About Great Barrier
Reef
 Biggest Reef in the world
 The whole reef is made up
of living organisms
 Hundreds of different
species of animals and coral
call the Great Barrier Reef
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Section 1, Geography and Make up of
Great Barrier Reef
 You will learn about what
the Great Barrier Reef is
made from and the different
types of coral that create
the reef.
 You will also learn about the
geography of the reef, such
as where it is located and
where certain types of coral
are located within the reef.
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Geography and Make up of Great Barrier
Reef
 The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Australia,
near Queensland
 The Great Barrier Reef is made of:
 2,900 individual coral reefs
 900 islands
 All living organisms
 And it stretches over 1,600 miles
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Geography and Make up of Great Barrier
Reef
 World’s largest single structure made by living
organisms.
 Composed of billions of tiny organisms called coral
polyps.
 Creates a habitat for many animal species.
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Geography and Make up of Great Barrier
Reef
 Ribbon and deltaic corals form in the north part of the
reef, but are not found in any other part of the reef.
 Fringing Corals distributed widely but most common
towards the southern part.
 Crescentic Corals are most common shape of reef in the
middle of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Geography and Make up of Great Barrier
Reef
 Planar corals found in
northern and southern
parts of the reef.
 Most islands on Great
Barrier Reef are found
on planar corals.
 Reefs attached to
mainland are rare.
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Application
 Think about how the Great Barrier Reef provides more
for the environment than habitats for animals. What
are some other things the Great Barrier Reef does for
the environment?
 Once you have done this, you can move on to the next
section.
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Section 2, Life In and Around the Great
Barrier Reef
 The Great Barrier Reef supports a diversity of life,
including many endangered species.
 It provides habitats for:
 Ocean Animals
 Coral Species
 Land Animals
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Ocean Animals
 Six different species of sea turtles
 Thirty species of whales
 Great Barrier Reef is the mating
ground for Humpback whales
 Dolphins, Porpoises
 125 species of sharks and stingrays
 5000 species of mollusks
 Nine species of seahorses
 1500 different species of fish
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Coral Species
 400 different species of
coral, such as:
 Brain Coral
 Fire Coral
 Staghorn Coral
 Both hard and soft forms
of coral
 The individual coral reefs
make up the entire Great
Barrier Reef.
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Land Animals
 Some of the coral is above water and has created islands for land animals to
live.
 Some of the species are:
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Seven different species of frogs
215 species of birds
17 species of snakes
Over 2195 plant species
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Application
 Think about how the Great Barrier Reef creates
habitats for land animals as well as ocean animals. Do
you think it would be difficult for these species of
animals to find new places to live if the Great Barrier
Reef did not exist?
 Once you have done this, you can move to the next
section.
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Section 3, The Environment and the
Great Barrier Reef
 The Great Barrier Reef was used by
the Aboriginal people and it was
important to their culture.
 Besides the Aboriginal people, the
Great Barrier Reef was not studied
until the 19th century
 After studying and exploring the
reef, they found:
 Places with guano deposits
 Convenient locations to construct
lighthouses
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Climate Change
 Ocean warming causes
coral bleaching
 Expected to become
annual occurrence
 When temperatures rise,
some fish species seek new
habitats
 Effects sea turtle
population around the reef
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Pollution
 Declining water quality
 Poor water quality due to increased light and oxygen
competition from algae
 Northeast Australian rivers pollute reef during
tropical flood events
 90% of pollution comes from farm runoffs
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Crown of Thorns Starfish
 Prey on coral polyps (which
makes up the Great Barrier Reef)
 Large outbreaks of these starfish
can devastate the reef, such as in
2000 when an outbreak of crown
of thorn starfish caused a loss of
66% of live coral
 Causes of outbreaks of these
starfish are:
 they occur in a natural cycle
 Poor water quality increases the
risk of outbreaks
 Overfishing of starfish’s
predators
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Fishing
 Overfishing of keystone species, such as Giant Triton,
can disrupt food chains vital to reef life
 Fishing causes increased water pollution from boats and
catching unwanted species
 Fishing causes habitat destruction from anchors and
nets
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Application
 Think about what
other types of effects
pollution has on the
Great Barrier Reef and
the world in general.
 Once you have done
this, you can move on
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Practice 1
 The Great Barrier Reef has the largest collection of
coral reefs.
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False
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Practice 2
 The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Hawaii.
True
False
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Practice 3
The Great Barrier Reef is the mating ground for beluga
whales.
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False
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Practice 4
The Great Barrier Reef creates islands for land animals to
live.
True
False
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Practice 5
The Great Barrier Reef is made of all living organisms.
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False
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Question 1
Which of these is NOT an environmental effect on the
Great Barrier Reef?
A) Fishing
B) Climate Change
C) Pollution
D) Scuba Diving
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Question 2
Which of these are NOT true about coral reefs?
A) Commonly attach to
mainland
B) They are living
organisms
C) They are a cluster of
polyps
D) There are many
different species of coral
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Question 3
The most common reef type found in the middle of the
Great Barrier Reef is ______.
A) Crescentic
B) Ribbon
C) Planar
D) Deltaic
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Question 4
More than _______ species of whales call the Great Barrier
Reef home.
A) 27
B) 30
C) 33
D) 37
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Question 5
There are more than _____ plant species on the Great
Barrier Reef.
A) 1997
B) 2036
C) 2195
D) 2304
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Question 6
What types of coral are found in the Great Barrier Reef?
A) Hard
B) Soft
C) Neither
D) Both
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Question 7
Which of these was NOT a use of the Great Barrier Reef?
A) Finding guano deposits
B) Building lighthouses
C) By Aboriginal culture
D) Treasure hunting
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Question 8
Ocean warming causes _______?
A) Coral Bleaching
B) Some fish to find new
habitats
C) Both A and B
A) None of the Above
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Question 9
90% of pollution of the Great Barrier Reef comes from
_______?
A) Farm Runoffs
B) Fisherman
C) Sea Life
D) Scuba Divers
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Question 10
Fishing causes what problems to the reef?
A) Increased Water
Pollution
B) Habitat destruction
from net and anchors
C) Disruption of food
chains
D) All of the above
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References
References
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef
 http://www.greatbarrierreef.org/
 http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/154
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