Loving Our Reefs to Death

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Loving Our Reefs to Death

• A Presentation by
• Rachel, Nicole and Hector

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What is a coral reef?

• Called a polyp- is made up of a simple stomach
  with a mouth and tentacles.
• Branching corals-are considered hard corals,since
  they have a hard carbonate calcium.

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Where can they be found?

• Restricted to the tropics.
• Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees North Latitude)
• Tropic of Capricorn(23.5 degrees South Latitude)

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Reefs Around The World
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What are there requirements?
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3 of the best known coral reefs
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Who lives in the coral reefs?
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Three types of coral reefs
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Conclusion

• Overfishing
• Natural disturbance
• Coral bleaching
• Coral Diseases
• white band disease
• black band disease
• bacteria infection
• shut down reaction