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Title: What is a coral Reef?


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What is a coral Reef?
There are137 species of coral found in southern
Sinai.
Coral reefs are the largest natural structure in
the world. They are made up of coral animals
also known as coral polyps and zooxanthellae.
Did you know that coral reefs have been on the
earth for 450 million years?
2
Coral Reef
Coral reefs need from 68 degrees to 82 degrees to
live.
Many people us dynamite to Fish. But they dont
understand that they are also hurting the coral
reef.
3
Dynamite Fishing



When some people dynamite fish they use dynamite
to kill the fish. But when they do this they also
kill the coral reef too.
They are also killing fish too. For example such
fish like the butterfly fish, the clown fish, the
Farces fish and the Atlantic Blue tang will have
nothing to protect itself and will eventually die
out. If this keeps happening at a steady pace
more than 50 of the coral reef will vanish.
4
Problems for the coral reef
  • The main problems for coral is
  • Pollution
  • Over fishing
  • Dynamite and cyanide fishing and
  • Sedimentation

5
Solutions
Here are some solutions to saving the coral reefs.
1. Make a law to ban dynamite fishing.
2. Make an under water vacuum to catch the fish
and not the coral reefs.
6
References
  1. Dive to the coral reefs. By Elizabeth Tayntor
    Paul Erickson and Les Kaufman.

2. Fish by Steven Parker
3. Deep Ocean By Wendy Pfeffer
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Corys slide
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Credits
Cameron
Jeff C.
Jeff S.
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