Florida Keys National Marine SanctuaryA travelers dream

By: Maggie, Elijah, Lucia

• Location: Florida Keys, South of Miami near the westward to the Dry Tortugas

• Closest city: Miami, Florida

Florida keys marine sanctuary

FLORIDA KEYS

• Biome: A coral reef; home to a different organisms.

• Coordinates: 24° 41’N 81°14’ W• Similar Biomes: In the Indian Ocean near

equator

What's the Biome?

This is a biome!

Abiotic Factors

• There are two seasons:

Wet season (May to October)

Dry season (November to April)

• Precipitation: High in May to June

Graph of the Precipitation

• Average summer temperature is 80˚ Fahrenheit (27°C)

• Average amount of humidity : around 75%.

Humidity

Graph of humidity

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

• Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary's top daylight hour is 18 hours

      Length of day Solar noon

Date Sunrise SunsetThis day

Difference

TimeAltitud

e

Distance

(million mi)

Jan 1, 2013

7:08 AM

5:42 PM

10h 33m 59s

+ 22s12:25

PM41.3° 91.406

Jan 2, 2013

7:08 AM

5:42 PM

10h 34m 24s

+ 24s12:25

PM41.4° 91.406

Jan 3, 2013

7:08 AM

5:43 PM

10h 34m 51s

+ 26s12:26

PM41.5° 91.407

Jan 4, 2013

7:08 AM

5:44 PM

10h 35m 20s

+ 28s12:26

PM41.6° 91.408

Jan 5, 2013

7:09 AM

5:44 PM

10h 35m 51s

+ 30s12:26

PM41.7° 91.410

Jan 6, 2013

7:09 AM

5:45 PM

10h 36m 24s

+ 32s12:27

PM41.8° 91.412

Jan 7, 2013

7:09 AM

5:46 PM

10h 36m 59s

+ 34s12:27

PM42.0° 91.414

Above is a table of January, 2013’s days.

• 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.

Partly sunny. Warm.

Mostly cloudy. Warm.

Temperature:

82 °F 82 °F 81 °F 87 °F 82 °F 82 °F

• 5.5 inches of rain each month• Hurricane Season :June 1 and November 30.13-

16% chance of a hurricane • September is where the most rain fall happens.

Biotic FactorsMain 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.

• Different organisms give off energy and get energy from each other

Below is a graph of the energy Florida Keys get each year.

• 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.

Corals have four different habitats for coral reefs.

• Hardbottom • Patch Reef Shallow• Offshore Reef • Deep Offshore Reef

Different types of Coral reefs

• 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:

• Groups of fish search around the reefs for food; algea.

• Most fishes have diffrentcolors.

Ex: Three spotted damselfish

Food Web

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

Organisms Table

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

• 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

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

Resources

Florida

only two seasons

summer and spring

Temp. Range: 60F – 90F