Coral are in phylum Cnidaria, Which makes them similar to what other organism?
jellyfish
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What else, besides warm temperatures, do coral need to grow?
a hard surface to attach to and clear shallow water with ample light penetration
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What are the two major primary producers on a coral reef?
Zooxanthellae and seaweed
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What is a Coenosarc?
a thin skinned tissue that connects the digestive systems of coral polyps together.
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What symbiotic relationship do crown of thorns predators have with the coral reef?
Shrimp fishes and clams that attack the crown of thorns sea star. Protection for the coral reef and the coral reef provides a safe place for them to live.
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what is an Atoll?
is a ring-shaped coral reef including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
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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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How does the “Coreolis effect” affect reef formation?
It pushes cooler polar air into tropical regions, such as the western coast of south American and Africa.
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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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Why do you see so many mutualistic symbiotic relationships on the coral reef?
cohabitation, It allows more organisms to live in the same area.
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What is A?
coralite cup
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What kind of symbiotic relationship are Clownfish involved in? and with what other organism?
mutualism: clownfish is protected by the stinging tentacles of the anemone and the anemone gets food from fish the clownfish attract and their waste.
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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