Coral Reef

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CoralReef

• By Maya g.

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Description

• Dictionary definition
• Coral reef a reef consisting of coral
  consolidated into limestone
• Coral a marine colonial polyp characterized by
  calcareos skeleton
• Reef a submerged rock or coil

carribean
plant
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Locations

• Coral reefs are usually located in clear
  tropical waters. Coral reefs are at least 150 ft.
  under water but to be formed they have to be
  pretty close to the sun. The reason for this is
  algae (the enemy of coral) grows faster than
  coral .To make a coral reef you have to have
  coral . The way you make coral is sun . If algae
  covers coral then well no coral reef.

Great barrier reef
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Plants

• The coral reef has many plants belive it or
  not .It has plants such as plankton, sea grasses
  , algae last but not least coral. There are a lot
  of plants in the coral reef.

Plants around reef
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Animals

• In a coral reef there are so many different
  varietys of animals. Including sharks ! There are
  also others like conch,lobster, shrimp and sun
  jellys. There many more.

Jelly fish
lobster
shark
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Food Chains

• If you ever eat fish your part of a coral reef
  food chain. This is an example of a food chain
  sun

plankton
fish
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Weather

• It has to be warm because algae wont grow over
  coral. Always has to be over 90 .

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refrence

• I got all my info at world biomes.com

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