1. Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary A travelers dream
By: Maggie, Elijah, Lucia

2. Florida keys marine sanctuary
Location: Florida Keys, South of Miami near the westward to the Dry Tortugas
Closest city: Miami, Florida

3. FLORIDA KEYS

4. What's the Biome? Biome: A coral reef; home to a different organisms.
Coordinates: 24° 41’N 81°14’ W
Similar Biomes: In the Indian Ocean near equator
This is a biome!

5. Abiotic Factors
There are two seasons:
Wet season (May to October)
Dry season (November to April)
Precipitation: High in May to June

6. Graph of the Precipitation

7. Humidity Average summer temperature is 80˚ Fahrenheit (27°C)
Average amount of humidity : around 75%.

8. Graph of humidity

9. Florida, only two seasons, summer and spring, Temp. Range: 60F – 90F

10. Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary's top daylight hour is 18 hours
Length of day
Solar noon
Date
Sunrise
Sunset
This day
Difference
Time
Altitude
Distance
(million mi)
Jan 1, 2013
7:08 AM
5:42 PM
10h 33m 59s
+ 22s
12:25 PM
41.3°
91.406
Jan 2, 2013
10h 34m 24s
+ 24s
41.4°
Jan 3, 2013
5:43 PM
10h 34m 51s
+ 26s
12:26 PM
41.5°
91.407
Jan 4, 2013
5:44 PM
10h 35m 20s
+ 28s
41.6°
91.408
Jan 5, 2013
7:09 AM
10h 35m 51s
+ 30s
41.7°
91.410
Jan 6, 2013
5:45 PM
10h 36m 24s
+ 32s
12:27 PM
41.8°
91.412
Jan 7, 2013
5:46 PM
10h 36m 59s
+ 34s
42.0°
91.414
Above is a table of January, 2013’s days.

11. The overall daily temperature is 85˚F and lower in the rain.
Climate: a tropical maritime climate ( hot and humid).
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Description:
Partly sunny. Warm.
Mostly cloudy. Warm.
Partly cloudy. Warm.
Widely scattered storms. Mostly sunny. Warm.
Temperature:
82 °F
81 °F
87 °F

12. 5.5 inches of rain each month
Hurricane Season :June 1 and November % chance of a hurricane
September is where the most rain fall happens.

13. Main Organisms: Coral reefs, algae, and fishes.
Biotic Factors
Main Organisms: Coral reefs, algae, and fishes.
World’s third largest barrier reef for habitat for fishes and other marine life.
Above is a picture of the fishes that live there.

14. Below is a graph of the energy Florida Keys get each year.
Different organisms give off energy and get energy from each other
Below is a graph of the energy Florida Keys get each year.

15. The coral reef live in 70˚F – 85˚ F water that must be salty.
Corals are a major organism in this ecosystem. It provides food for animals and a habitat for others.
The coral reef live in 70˚F – 85˚ F water that must be salty.
Process of reproducing coral:
The coral polyp floats briefly before it finds a solid place to attach itself to. Then, it builds in a colony and becomes taller years after years.
Above is how the coral polyps look like.

16. Corals have four different habitats for coral reefs.
Hardbottom
Patch Reef Shallow
Offshore Reef
Deep Offshore Reef

17. Different types of Coral reefs

18. Zooxanthellae use photosynthesis to make food and brightens the coal.
Animals eat algae for food; especially coral. Algae even lives inside the corals. They benefit from each other.
Zooxanthellae use photosynthesis to make food and brightens the coal.
Here’s how the zooxanthellae look like:

19. Groups of fish search around the reefs for food; algea.
Most fishes have diffrentcolors.
Ex: Three spotted damselfish

20. Food Web

21. Organisms Table Producer Primary Consumer Secondary Consumer
Tertiary Consumer
Decomposer
Phytoplanktonster
Christmas tree worm
Sea star
Marine Bacteria
Calcareous green algae
Flamingo tongue snail
French Angelfish
West Indies Spiny Lobster
Zooxanthellae
Red finger sponge
Knobbed Porgy
Long Spined Black Urchin
Barracuda
Staghorn coral
Moray eel
Zooplankton
Gulf Flounder
Three-spot damselfish
Parrot Fish

22. What’s the Issues?
People are stepping on the coral reefs even if there are signs. Corals can die easily.
The nutrients of the keys is very poor in soil
The climate change leads into a problems with money

23. The education is bad. When it is too hot, kids can go home.
Less coral reefs are being produced
27% of the world’s coral reefs is affected.
Humans needs to stop stepping on the coral. Stop disturbing them

24. Resources Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary Cards Fossweb.com
Floridakeys.noaa.gov
Timeanddate.com

25. Florida

26. only two seasons

27. summer and spring

28. Temp. Range: 60F – 90F