How sensitive to changes in water temperature are coral reefs? To find out, scientists examined data on sea surface temperatures and coral growth per year at locations in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The table shows the data for the Gulf of Mexico. Sea surface temperature 26.7 26.6 26.6 26.5 26.3 26.1 Growth 0.85 0.85 0.79 0.86 0.89 0.92 Click to download the data in your preferred format. CSV Excel JMP Mac-Text Minitab14-18 Minitab18+ PC-Text R SPSS TI CrunchIt! (a) Make a scatterplot. Which is the explanatory variable? The plot shows a negative linear pattern. -0.8111 Explanatory Variable