Coral Lifestyle
Coral is an acient ansestor to jellyfish & anenomies. Coral reefs consist of Poylps which are very small and simple orgamisms consisting mostly of a stomach topped by a tenicle mouth. Thousands of idenical Poylps live together and form a coral colony.
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Coral reefs are usallly found in shallow areas at a depth of less than 150 feet.
Some coral reefs extend even deeper, up to about 450 feet deep.
Despite how important coral reefs are to life in the ocean, all of them in the world add up to less than one percent of the sea floor – an area about the size of France.
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worldpress, 2015
Mbiyimoh Ghogomu, 2014
onlineworld.com