Q 01/05

Biscayne National Park is in which US state?

A) Florida

B) Georgia

C) Texas

D) California

Answer · why

A) Florida

It sits just south of Miami, running from just below Key Biscayne down to just north of Key Largo.

Q 02/05

Roughly what share of the park's 173,000 acres is dry land?

A) About 25 percent

B) About 5 percent

C) About 50 percent

D) About 80 percent

Answer · why

B) About 5 percent

Only 9,075 acres are land, split between the offshore keys and the mainland mangrove fringe; everything else is bay and reef.

Q 03/05

Elliott Key is the park's largest island. Which is second, at about 660 acres?

A) Sands Key

B) Totten Key

C) Old Rhodes Key

D) Adams Key

Answer · why

C) Old Rhodes Key

Elliott Key itself is about 8 miles long and less than a mile wide; Sands Key and Totten Key follow at 420 and 380 acres.

Q 04/05

How many islands lie within the park boundaries?

A) 60

B) 78

C) 150

D) 42

Answer · why

D) 42

They run in a north–south line 5 to 9 miles off the mainland, shifting from sandy barrier islands in the north to coral rock platforms in the south.

Q 05/05

The park's offshore waters hold the northern end of which coral system, one of the largest in the world?

A) The Mesoamerican Reef

B) The Florida Reef

C) The Bahama Banks

D) The Andros Barrier Reef

Answer · why

B) The Florida Reef

Reefs cover about half the park, with some 4,000 individual patch reefs; elkhorn coral dominates the shallows and staghorn below about 10 metres.