Ecosystem
This term describes the interconnected community of living organisms and their environment within the reef.
What is an ecosystem?
The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of this country
What is Australia?
This type of coral reproduction involves the growth of new corals from fragments that break off and settle on the reef.
What is asexual reproduction/fragmentation?
Corals primarily feed off of this organism.
What is plankton?
What type of cellular organism is a coral
Multicellular/Eukaryote
The Great Barrier Reef is home to this large marine reptile, known for its long migrations across oceans.
What is the green sea turtle?
These land forms are formed from the accumulation of coral debris and the growth of coral reefs over thousands of years
What is a Coral Island?
This is the term for tiny marine animals that build corals. AKA what corals are made of.
What are coral polyps?
This process, performed by a special species of algae living within coral tissues, provides the coral with most of its energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This term refers to the variety of living species in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
This fish, known for its bright orange color and white stripes, forms symbiotic relationships with sea anemones.
What is a clownfish?
The Great Barrier Reef spans approximately this many kilometers, making it the largest coral reef system in the world.
What is 2,300km
The first stage of growth for corals in the Great Barrier Reef
What is the larvae stage?
Calcium Carbonate is used to make this part of the coral.
Its outer skeleton
This is how corals adapt to the rising of sea levels.
What is vertical growth/colonial growth
These tiny drifting organisms, including both plants and animals, form the base of the food web in the reef ecosystem.
What are plankton?
This body of water surrounds the Great Barrier Reef.
What is the Coral Sea
This phenomenon, occurring once a year, involves the synchronized spawning of thousands of coral species across the Great Barrier Reef, making it one of the largest reproductive events in the marine world.
What is coral mass spawning?
This metabolic process in coral species, known to be crucial for their survival, allows them to adjust to varying temperatures by regulating their metabolic rate to conserve energy.
What is metabolic regulation?
What are 1,500+?
This phenomenon, caused by rising ocean temperatures, leads to the loss of algae from coral, turning them white.
What is coral bleaching?
The Great Barrier Reef is divided into several sections, one of which is this famous reef system, known for its clear waters and diverse marine life, located in the northern part of the reef.
What is the Ribbon Reefs
This is a form of reproduction where in the fertilized eggs develop inside of the mother coral’s tissue before being released as larvae
What is brooding?
This type of symbiotic algae lives inside coral tissues and provides the coral with energy through photosynthesis.
What are zooxanthellae?
This UNESCO designation recognizes the Great Barrier Reef for its outstanding universal value, helping to preserve its unique marine ecosystem.
What is a world heritage site?