The great barrier reef - mundlig Englesk

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Conlusion - Sceinstest - Seriously - Save

But many sceinist are working with it. They are now taking the situation more seriously than in 1900. So maybe soon we would save them and save everyone else if we took our selfs more seriously about the climate change.

4. Half 5. Global problem

Now half of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached to death since 2016. Mass coral bleaching, a global problem triggered by climate change, occurs when unnaturally hot ocean water destroys a reef's colorful algae, leaving the coral to starve.' When a coralbleaches, it is not dead. Corals can survive a bleaching event, but they are under more stress and are subject to mortality.

Why is it in danger? 1. Important 2. Protects 3. Provides

Coral reefs are important for many different reasons aside from supposedly containing the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. They protect coastlines from the damaging effects of wave action and tropical storms and provide habitats and shelter for many marine organisms.

What is coral reefs? 1. Diverse 2. Underwater animals 3. Coral polyps 4. Built

Coral reefs are underwater animals looking like plants. They are some of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups. Many people say that they are plants, even though they are not.

5. Animals 6. Tentacle-like arms

Corals are animals, though, because they do not make their own food, as plants do. Corals have tiny, tentacle-like arms that they use to capture their food from the water and sweep into their mouths.

6. Damaged 7. Can survive 8. Never fully 9. 10 years 10. Destroying 11. Die out 12. Poor.

Damaged reefs takes at least 10 years to rebound, so it may never fully recover. Once the coral is dead, the reefs will also die and erode, it will destroying important marine life spawning and feeding grounds. So they are gonna die out. Ande after Marines dies out, many would live poor and would cut our most important food source.

What is The Great Barrier Reef? 1. Largest 2. Queensland 3. 2,000 km 4. 2900 individual 5. 1,500 speacies

Great barrier reef is worlds largest coral reef. It's located in the coral ocean of Australie's north coast and can be seen from space. The Coral reef consists of 2900 individual reefs and a home to to more than 1,500 species of fish, species of sharks and rays, six of the world's seven species of threatened marine turtles, and more than 30 species of marine mammals.

6. Attraction

The Great Barrier Reef is Australia's greatest attraction and 1.6 million people come each year from all over the world to snorkel and scuba dive there to see marine life.


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