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What symbiotic relationship are wrasse involved in?
Cleaner shrimp and fish (wrasses): the cleaners get food and the cleaned get cleaned of parasites and other debris that clings to them
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What is coral bleaching? Why is called bleaching.
When a coral is stressed, it expels it's zoothanthellae. zoothanthellae give coral their color, so when they are expelled, the coral is white
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What does Leeward mean?
The side that is sheltered from the wind. Opposite is windwardโฏ
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What is A?
coralite cup
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What is the columella?
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How do gyres affect where coral reefs will form?
Coral needs warm clear water. The gyres in some areas bring cool water into tropical latitudes.
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List the three regions of a fringe reef from the seaward side to the land and describe then.
1. fore reef slope,very steep2reef crest.Most coral growth. >light and currents wash away sediment3.reef flat-often exposed exposed during low tide,..
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Why are coral reefs said to be similar to a rain forest?
Because they are both homes to such a huge variety of organisms
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How does the โCoreolis effectโ affect reef formation?โฏ
It pushes cooler polar air into tropical regions, such as the western coast of south American and Africa.
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How does and atoll form?
1underwater volcano/seamount.2.coral begins to grow on hard surfaces,3.dormant volcano sinks.4. leaving behind a fringing reef-barrier reef-atoll.
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Why doesn't seaweed over grow a coral reef?
The area is a low nutrient area, and predators eat itโฏ(over growth can occur from fertilizer run off or a lack of predators)
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What symbiotic relationship are Remoras involved in?
mutualism: remoras eat food the sharks drop and are protected because most fish avoid sharks, and they eat parasites and other debris off the shark.
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Why do corals produce mucous?
To trap food and bring it to their mouth, protection from desiccation, pathogens, to trap sediment and send it away from their mouth.
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