Transcript Coral Reef By: Maya g.

Coral
Reef
By: Maya g.
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
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.
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
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
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
Weather
It has to be warm because
algae wont grow over coral.
Always has to be over 90 .
refrence
I got all my info at world biomes.com
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