Types of reefs
What type of reef grows near the coastline, and around islands and continents
Fringing Reef
This animal is a shape and slides across the reefs.
Starfish
I am edible, slippy,gigantic, wet what am I?
Seaweed
What happens when you pull on and touch Coral reefs?
IT BREAKS
Are corals animals or plants?
What type of reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef building corals?
Barrier Reef
Long, streamlined shell, can be green, yellow, greenish brown, reddish brown or black.
Sea turtle
I am giant, articulated, and winged, greenish brown and sometimes known as the "underwater forests"
Kelp
What is it called when people use hand-gathering, spearfishing, netting, angling and trapping?
Fishing practices
What percent of coral reefs are irrevocably damaged.
25%
A ring shaped coral reef, island, or series of islets.
Atoll
This animals blows up when threatened.
Puffer fish
Sea lettuce
What occurs when coral polyps expel algae that live inside their tissues.
Coral Bleaching
What year was it when it Did NOT involve recruitment of new coral larvae. It Involved rapid regeneration & regrowth of remnant coral tissue.
December 2006
This reef is formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate.
Barrier
The animal that protected Nemo and marlin
A flowering underwater plant 1/4 inch wide leaves that can reach lengths of 3 feet. Submerged and these roots are known as rhizomes.
Eelgrass
What do captains or fisherman's use to make sure their boat/ships stay in the same place?
Anchors
about 6,000 to 8,000 years old.
This is separated by deeper and wider lagoons?
Fringing
I am slick warm, occasional flirtatious, exceptionally polite and affectionate, slippery french, other and then more, common freshwater, dear slippery, famous electric. What am I?
Moray Eel
base of several aquatic food webs. In a balanced ecosystem, they provide food for a wide range of sea creatures.
Phytoplankton
the operation of excavating material from a water environment.
Dredging
What all are coral reefs made of?
Coral reefs are colonies of various types of reef- building stony hard corals. Each coral colony is Composed of tiny animals called polyps. Each polyp secretes hard calcium carbonate skeleton. Calcium carbonate is continuously secreted at the base of the polyps.
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